| Titre |
Environmental Policy with Green Consumerism |
| Titre traduit |
Politique économique et économie verte |
| Lien hypertexte |
Site tse-fr.eu |
| Auteur |
AMBEC, Stefan ; DE DONDER, Philippe |
| Titre du périodique |
Toulouse School of Economics, Working Papers, |
| Date |
2021/07 |
| Pagination ou Durée d'écoute |
47 p. |
| Résumé |
Abstract: “We analyze environmental policy in a model where some consumers (dubbed green) derive warm glow from buying a good of a higher environmental quality, and where green firms differentiate products on their environmental quality to enjoy market power. For any given pollution level, emission taxes turn out to be less cost-effective than an emission standard because taxation always induces a higher wedge between the environmental qualities of products. By stark contrast, consumers prefer taxes to standards when the willingness to pay for greener goods is not too large. Also, the ability of green firms to exert market power makes the tax less attractive to green consumers. When the pollution level is endogenized via majority voting, both neutral and green consumers vote in favor of laxer standards and therefore pollution is higher compared to the case of non-differentiated products. By contrast, the majority chosen tax induces the efficient level of pollution. Green consumerism then reduces environmental protection with standards but not with taxes.”
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Centre de ressources sur le commerce équitable
