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Joint ventures, pollution and environmental policy

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  • Roy Chowdhury, Indrani

    (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy)

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We examine the impact of abatement taxes on the pollution level in a duopoly framework with endogenous market structure. We demonstrate that an increase in abatement taxes could trigger a regime-switch from joint ventures to Cournot competition, causing the pollution level to increase. Moreover, abatement taxes can implement the first best outcome if and only if the industry is not too polluting. In case it is, the second best level of taxes may or may not equal the optimal tax under either joint venture, or Cournot competition.

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  • Roy Chowdhury, Indrani, 2005. "Joint ventures, pollution and environmental policy," Working Papers 05/31, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
    • Handle: RePEc:npf:wpaper:05/31
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    Keywords

    Joint ventures ; Pollution ; Abatement tax ; Endogenous market structure;
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    JEL classification:

    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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