Public, private and nonprofit regulation for environmental quality

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Public, private and nonprofit regulation for environmental quality

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Lucie Bottega () (LAMETA, Université de Montpellier 1)
Jenny De Freitas () (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

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This paper studies the welfare implications of different institutions certifying environmental quality supplied by a monopoly. The monopolist can voluntarily certify the quality of the product through an eco-label provided either by an NGO or a for-proft private certifier (PC). The NGO and the PC may use advertisement to promote the label. We compare the NGO and PC regimes with the regime where the regulator imposes a minimum quality standard. The presence of a private certifier in the market decreases the scope for public intervention. The availability of green advertisement reinforces the above result.

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Paper provided by Universitat de les Illes Balears, Departament d'Economía Aplicada in its series DEA Working Papers with number 33.

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- Lucie Bottega & Jenny De Freitas, 2009. "Public, Private and Nonprofit Regulation for Environmental Quality," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 18(1), pages 105-123, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs
L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-AGR-2009-03-14 (Agricultural Economics)
NEP-ALL-2009-03-14 (All new papers)
NEP-ENV-2009-03-14 (Environmental Economics)
NEP-REG-2009-03-14 (Regulation)
NEP-RES-2009-03-14 (Resource Economics)

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