This paper examines policies to increase the number of environmentally-friendly consumers using models of Arora and Gangopadhyay (1995) and Bansal and S. Gangopadhyay (2003). In our model it is assumed that consumers' enrironmentally awareness or willingness to pay for eco-products depend on...

On 20 December 2011, the European Commission tabled the so-called public procurement modernisation package, adopted by the Council on 11 February 2014 . The modernisation package consists of a revision of the classical and sector directives, as well as a new concessions directive, which all have...

We seek to understand how and when government should (and should not) intervene to stimulate green product development when competing firms with asymmetric credibilities communicate their environmental performance through ecolabels. To that end, we develop a consumer-driven model of green...