Cet article traite de l'exclusion par manipulation des marchés de permis d'émission. Dans un premier temps, nous déterminons la valeur de l'exclusion que le permis représente. Puis, nous définissons la stratégie de sur-achat des permis et évaluons son impact sur le prix du permis. Nous en...

This paper analyzes the effects of pollution permit markets on equilibrium employment in a wage-setting/price-setting (WS–PS) model. The employment level is determined according to different methods of financing unemployment benefits: a wage tax or the revenue from a pollution permit auction....

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the spillover effects that occur in the decision to deforest and the creation of protected areas in local administrative entities in Brazilian Legal Amazon over the 2001-2011...

We consider, in this paper, the allocation of pollution quotas as a mechanism design problem. The first objective of pollution quotas is to reduce pollution, but raising revenue is an additional goal when taxation is distortionary. As there is a conflict between allocative efficiency and...

This paper discusses market power effects in ambient permit markets. A first conclusion is that the distortion observed at the manipulated market spreads to other markets. We find that the manipulated price could be lower (higher) than his competitive level according to the dominant firm acts as...

Incentive contracts can be proposed to a dominant firm that has been excluded from the pollution permit market. We determine the optimal characteristics of a contract considering the trade-off between market efficiency and the cost of public funds. We show that under incomplete information the...

<alinea/> In this article, the different methods that can be used to distribute pollution quotas are analysed. First, we present the free of charge allocations. Then, we give several kinds of allocation which raise revenue for the government. Finally, we compare these different allocations within a...

[eng] Pollution Permit Markets and Imperfect Competition Pollution permit markets offer attractive properties if there are competitive. Moreover, this result is not valid anymore if the pollution permit market or output markets are not competitive. The aim of this article is to show in which...

There are more and more industries in which firms are specialized in the production of a component of the final good. This is especially true in high-tech industries. The basic question is why don't these firms merge ? We paradoxically show that industries which are typical candidates for...