Optimal environmental policy for oligopolistic industries under intra-industry trade
Optimal environmental policy for oligopolistic industries under intra-industry trade
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产业内贸易下寡头垄断产业的最优环境政策
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10.1007/978-94-015-8642-9_4
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1996
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K. Conrad
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K. Conrad
Protecting the environment has always had implications for international trade. In recent years, as global warming and other environmental concerns have multiplied, environmental issues have played an increasing role in trade negotiations. Negotiating environmental regulations mutilaterally is especially problematic because of differences in preferences, in income levels or in production cost across countries. In addition, environmental considerations can be used to disguise protectionist policies. 1 Since firms located in their home countries are predominantly owned by its residents, policies that increase home firms' profits at the expense of foreign firms look attractive to policy-makers. National governments in a number of countries consider including in their arsenal of industry and trade policies such items as subsidies for R&D in cleaner technologies and products, subsidies for abatement activities, or taxes on emissions combined with subsidies for inputs heavily taxed by emission taxes (eg coal). An example for such a package of instruments would be a CO2 emission tax in Germany together with the present subsidy of DM 260 ($150) per ton of hard coal. The endorsement in 1985 by President Reagan of a $2.5 billion, 5-year effort to find cleaner methods of burning coal is another example. Assume that there are two countries, labelled home and foreign. The industry in question (eg steel or chemicals) is a homogeneous product duopoly. There is one producer of the good in each country, interacting as Cournot duopolists. Intra-industy trade is explained by differences in marginal cost and in consumer preferences. If national governments levy emission taxes, this policy might change the international competitiveness of their firms. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that governments will act strategically when setting their national environmental policy instruments. If the market equilibrium for any given set of policies is non-competitive, the interactions among firms can significantly alter the way in which environmental policies interact. The policy instruments include emission taxes, subsidies for abatement activities, and input subsidies. Especially a combination of
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2023
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作者:
Hamanaka Shintaro;Jusoh Sufian;Toshiyuki Hirai;Cato Susumu;Tadashi Sekiguchi
通讯作者:
Tadashi Sekiguchi