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Emission Taxes and Standards When Products are Vertically Differentiated in Environment Quality

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Lombardini-Riipinen, C.
Abstract

Consumers' increased willingness to pay a price premium for greener products stimulates firms to compete in environmental regulations. This paper uses a model of vertical product differentiation to study how an emission tax affects environmental quality competition, aggregate emissions, and social welfare when there is overcompliance.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics in its series University of Helsinki, Department of Economics with number 499.

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Length: 21 pages
Date of creation: 2001
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Handle: RePEc:fth:helsec:499

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Keywords: EMISSION CONTROL ; TAXATION ; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

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H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy

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