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Technology and Antitrust Policies in a Polluting Industry

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  • Joel Sandonís
  • Petr Mariel

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We compare different combinations of technology and antitrust policies from a social welfare point of view in a non-tournament model of cost reducing R&D with spillovers, for the case of a homogeneous goods duopoly, where production produces pollution as a by-product, firms face an exogenous emissions tax and can also invest in abatement technologies. We show that for sufficiently polluting industries facing a loose environmental policy, cooperative R&D is not always welfare improving; a policy of subsidizing cooperative R&D is always welfare improving; allowing for mergers may be socially desirable; not regulating the industry at all may be welfare superior to a policy consisting of forbidding market collusion and subsidizing cooperative R&D.

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  • Joel Sandonís & Petr Mariel, 2004. "Technology and Antitrust Policies in a Polluting Industry," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2004(1), pages 67-81.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpep:v:2004:y:2004:i:1:id:232:p:67-81
    DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.232
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    • L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
    • L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General
    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy

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