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The Environmental Goods and Services Industry

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  • Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard

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This paper highlights the relationships between environmental policy and the structure of the environmental goods and services industry. It first provides a short history of the latter sector and briefly describes its main segments and economic trends. The impact of particular policy instruments, such as emission taxes and tradable permits, on key features of industry structure — notably the size and elasticity of demand, entry and exit of firms, horizontal mergers, firm asymmetry, and R&D levels, is then reviewed, together with their respective consequences on polluters' compliance costs. Conclusions are drawn and research questions are raised concerning the appropriate design of environmental policy and current trade negotiations on the liberalization of environmental services.

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  • Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard, 2008. "The Environmental Goods and Services Industry," International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, now publishers, vol. 2(1), pages 69-99, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jirere:101.00000012
    DOI: 10.1561/000.00000012
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    1. Damien Sans & Sonia Schwartz & Hubert Stahn, 2015. "On Abatement Services: Market Power and Efficient Environmental Regulation," Working Papers halshs-01182200, HAL.
    2. Carl Gaigné & Lota D. Tamini, 2018. "Environmental regulation and eco-industry trade: Theory and evidence from the European Union," Working Papers SMART 18-09, INRAE UMR SMART.
    3. David, Maia & Nimubona, Alain-Désiré & Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard, 2011. "Emission taxes and the market for abatement goods and services," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(1), pages 179-191, January.
    4. Stepanenko, Bohdana, 2010. "Концептуальні Підходи До Визначення Поняття "Зелений Бізнес" [Methodology features and problems of definition of the term «green business»]," MPRA Paper 41117, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Damien Sans, 2015. "Optimal Taxation Rule Reversal in the Presence of Gentle Polluters and Greedy Cleaners," Working Papers halshs-01247190, HAL.
    6. Sanz, Nicolas & Schwartz, Sonia, 2013. "Are pollution permit markets harmful for employment?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 374-383.
    7. Alain-Désiré Nimubona & Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, 2011. "Polluters and Abaters," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 103-104, pages 9-24.
    8. Yasuyuki Sugiyama & Patcharin Koonsed, 2019. "International recycling firm joint ventures and optimal recycling standards," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 21(3), pages 427-449, July.
    9. To Trung Thanh & Le Thanh Ha & Hoang Phuong Dung & Tran Thi Lan Huong, 2023. "Impacts of digitalization on energy security: evidence from European countries," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(10), pages 11599-11644, October.
    10. Alain-Désiré Nimubona & Hassan Benchekroun, 2014. "Environmental R&D in the Presence of an Eco-Industry," Working Papers 1406, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2014.
    11. Sugiyama, Yasuyuki & Weng, Yungho & Abe, Kenzo, 2023. "Optimal policy for environmental goods trade in asymmetric oligopolistic eco-industries," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    12. Damien Sans & Sonia Schwartz & Hubert Stahn, 2014. "About Polluting Eco-Industries: Optimal Provision of Abatement Goods and Pigouvian Fees," Working Papers halshs-01083464, HAL.
    13. Yasuyuki Sugiyama & Muneyuki Saito, 2016. "Environmental Goods and Measures for Their Promotion: An Analysis Using a Fair Wage Model," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(5), pages 581-602, December.
    14. Shumska, Svitlana & Stepanenko-Lypovyk, Bohdana, 2012. "Methodology Features of green business development," MPRA Paper 41616, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Eco-industry; Environmental policy;

    JEL classification:

    • Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • L69 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Other
    • L89 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Other

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