In recent years a platform economy has emerged that is dominated by undertakings such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. They have established a form of private governance vis-à-vis their consumers and customers by means of standard terms that create a risk of exploitation. This...

Using a discrete-continuous model that deals with both consumers' choice and usage of an environmentally differentiated product in a utility-consistent framework, this paper investigates welfare impacts of emission taxes, subsidies and ad valorem taxes/subsidies on a green market where consumers...