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Regulation And Opportunism: How Much Activism Do We Need?

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Aleix Calveras ()
Juan-José Ganuza ()
Gerard Llobet () (CEMFI, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros)

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This paperanalyzes the current trend towards firms' self-regulation as opposed to the formal regulation of a negative externality. Firms respond to increasing activism in the market (conscious consumers that take into account the external effects of their purchase) by providing more socially responsible goods. However, because regualtion is the outcome of a political process, an increase in activism might imply and inefficiently higher externality level. This may happen when a majority of non-activist consumers collectively free-ride on conscious consumers. By determining a softer than optimal regulation, they benefit from the behavior of firms, yet they have access to cheaper (although less efficient) goods.

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Keywords: Activism; corporate social responsability; voting and regulation.;

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D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects

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