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Privatization and Environmental Policy in a Mixed Oligopoly
Dong, Quang - 2019
This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858455
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Higher costs for higher profits : a general assessment and an application to environmental regulations
Meunier, Guy; Nicolaï, Jean-Philippe - 2014
We study the effect of a shock on firms’ costs in a general setting by considering both perfect and imperfect competition and a general cost function. We show that, counterintuitively, firms’ profits may increase with cost increases. We generalize Seade’s (1985) results by considering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359348
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Behavior-based price discrimination in the domestic and international mixed duopoly
Okuyama, Suzuka - 2022
improves domestic social welfare, as it allows the public firm to lower its poaching price. In both cases, privatization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272877
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Privatization and environmental policy in a mixed oligopoly
Dong, Quan; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón, Maria … - In: Estudios de Economía 46 (2019) 2, pp. 173-190
This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486102
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Privatization in an international mixed oligopoly : the role of product differentiation under price competition
Chirco, Alessandra; Scrimitore, Marcella - 2017
product differentiation and the cross-country distribution of private firms affect the strategic privatization choices made by … firms, and privatization to be global welfare enhancing in this case. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785057
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Weitzman revisited : emission standards vs. taxes with uncertain control costs and market power of polluting firms
Heuson, Clemens (contributor) - 2008
economic theory has restricted to either of them when submitting conventional policy instruments to a comparative analysis. The …. -- Cournot oligopoly ; external diseconomies of pollution ; cost uncertainty ; emission standard ; emission tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725693
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Emission standards vs. taxes : the case of asymmetric Cournot duopoly and uncertain control costs
Heuson, Clemens - 2008
environmental economic theory has restricted itself to either of them when submitting conventional policy instruments to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746170
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Weitzman revisited : emission standards vs. taxes with uncertain control costs and market power of polluting firms
Heuson, Clemens - 2008
economic theory has restricted to either of them when submitting conventional policy instruments to a comparative analysis. The …. -- Cournot oligopoly ; external diseconomies of pollution ; cost uncertainty ; emission standard ; emission tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746172
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Is emission intensity or output u-shaped in the strictness of environmental policy
Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; Gil-Moltó, Maria J. - 2014
In a model where firms face a continuous choice of how much to invest in environmental innovation, we show that an ever stricter environmental policy does not always lead to ever cleaner production methods and ever lower production of polluting goods. It does so when the abatement technology is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361382
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Partial Privatization and Entry of Private Firms
Lin, Ming Hsin - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between partial privatization and the entry of private firms. The effects of …, if the public firm is partially privatized. Furthermore, the effects of partial privatization on market performance, as … well as the socially optimal degree of privatization, crucially depend on whether the new entrant is a domestic or foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128048