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Adoption incentives and environmental policy timing under asymmetric information and strategic firm behaviour

D'Amato, Alessio; Dijkstra, Bouwe

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Authors

Alessio D'Amato



Abstract

We consider the incentives of a single firm to invest in a cleaner technology under emission quotas and emission taxation. We assume asymmetric information about the firm's cost of employing the new technology. Policy is set either before the firm invests (commitment) or after (time consistency). Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that with commitment (time consistency), quotas give higher (lower) investment incentives than taxes. With quotas (taxes), commitment generally leads to higher (lower) welfare than time consistency. Under commitment with quadratic abatement costs and environmental damages, a modified Weitzman rule applies and quotas usually lead to higher welfare than taxes.

Citation

D'Amato, A., & Dijkstra, B. (in press). Adoption incentives and environmental policy timing under asymmetric information and strategic firm behaviour. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-017-0187-4

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 19, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 19, 2017
Deposit Date Jul 10, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jul 10, 2017
Journal Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Print ISSN 1432-847X
Electronic ISSN 1867-383X
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-017-0187-4
Keywords Asymmetric information, Commitment, Rime consistency, Emission taxation, Quotas
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/866767
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10018-017-0187-4
Additional Information The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10018-017-0187-4
Contract Date Jul 10, 2017

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