Titre :
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Competitive permit markets and vertical structures: the relevance of imperfectly competitive eco-industries (2014)
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Auteurs :
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Sonia Schwartz ;
Hubert Stahn
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Type de document :
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Article : Revues - Articles
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Dans :
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Journal of Public Economic Theory (Vol.16 N°1, February 2014)
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Article en page(s) :
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pp. 69-95
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Langues:
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Français
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Catégories :
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[Eurovoc] ENVIRONNEMENT > politique de l'environnement > politique de l'environnement > industrie de l'environnement
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Résumé :
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Permit markets lead polluting firms to purchase abatement goods from an eco-industry which is often concentrated. This paper studies the consequences of this sort of imperfectly competitive eco-industry on the equilibrium choices of the competitive polluting firms. It then characterizes the second-best pollution cap. By comparing this situation to one of perfect competition, we show that Cournot competition on the abatement good market contributes not only to a nonoptimal level of emission reduction but also to a higher permit price, which reduces the production level. These distortions increase with market power, measured by the margin taken by the noncompetitive firms, and suggest a second-best larger pollution cap.
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Doi :
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DOI : 10.1111/jpet.12048
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Axe de recherche :
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Trajectoires de développement durable
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En ligne :
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https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00926472
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