We model firms as competing for socially responsible consumers by linking the provision of a public good (environmentally friendly or socially responsible activities) to sales of their private goods. In many cases, too little of the public good is provided but under certain conditions,...

Engaging in environmentally friendly practices and then informing the public through advertising or on the product packaging is known as ecolabeling. In this paper, we examine how effective this type of competition among firms is as a means of privately providing a public good (environmental...

We model firms as competing for socially responsible consumers by linking the provision of a public good (environmentally friendly or socially responsible activities) to sales of their private goods. In many cases, too little of the public good is provided, but under certain conditions,...