Market power, resource extraction and pollution : some paradoxes and a unified view

Luca Lambertini, George Leitmann

We adopt a stepwise approach to the analysis of a dynamic oligopoly game in which production makes use of a natural resource and pollutes the environment, starting with simple models where firms' output is not a function of the natural resource to end up with a full-fledged model in which (i) the resource is explicitly considered as an input of production and (ii) the natural resource and pollution interact via the respective state equations. This allows us to show that the relationship between the welfare properties of the economic system and the intensity of competition is sensitive to the degree of accuracy with which the model is constructed.

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Year of publication:	November 29, 2011
Authors:	Lambertini, Luca ; Leitmann, George
Publisher:	Bologna, Italy : Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics
Subject:	environmental externality \| resource extraction \| oligopoly \| Pigouvian taxation \| R&D \| Oligopol \| Oligopoly \| Umweltbelastung \| Pollution \| Theorie \| Theory \| Ressourcenökonomik \| Resource economics \| Umweltökonomik \| Environmental economics \| Erschöpfbare Ressourcen \| Exhaustible resources \| Externer Effekt \| Externalities \| Internalisierung externer Effekte \| Internalizing externalities \| Marktmacht \| Market power

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 25 Seiten)
Series:	Quaderni - working paper DSE / Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Department of Economics. - Bologna : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2282-6483, ZDB-ID 2125055-8. - Vol. no 798
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4440 [DOI] hdl:10419/159637 [Handle]
Classification:	C73 - Stochastic and Dynamic Games ; H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies ; L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation; Environmental Management ; Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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