Designing Regulatory Policies for Complex Externalities: The Case of Agricultural Pollution
The paper examines the issue of designing and implementing policy measures to control complex agricultural externalities. Complex externalities refer to the situation where a production (firm on firm) externality coexists with a detrimental (firm on society) externality. The paper identifies the optimal solution for complex externalities, which is a combination of spatially differentiated taxes. However, severe information requirements render the first-best policy infeasible. Finally, a likely voluntary scheme based on firm self-report is examined which may enforce firm compliance with the optimal policy.
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| Length: | 19 pages |
| Date of creation: | 2012 |
| Handle: | RePEc:aua:wpaper:2012-6 |
| Contact details of provider: | Web page: http://www.aoa.aua.gr More information through EDIRC
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