Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are exerting growing pressure on firms to eliminate product components (such as palm oil) that are harmful to the environment (such as rainforests) or replace such components with NGO-certified sustainable components. Under which conditions does NGO pressure...

How does consumer misperception of competing eco-labels affect environmental and economic efficiency of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue by using a double-differentiation model, where three products are potentially in competition: an unlabeled product and...

How are consumer attitudes towards eco-labeled products affected by a profusion of labels? This article provides both theoretical and empirical insight into this issue. Assuming that consumers perceive a label both as a sign of quality and of a particular characteristic of a product, we deduce...

En France, les Plans de Déplacements Urbains (PDU) visent à favoriser la mobilité pour tous et à trouver un équilibre entre la voiture, les transports collectifs et les autres modes de transport, avec la volonté de promouvoir une mobilité durable. Quelle satisfaction les habitants des...

How are eco-label strategies affected by consumer confusion arising from the profusion of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue using a double differentiation framework. We assume that consumers perceive a label as a sign of quality compared to an unlabeled...

L'objet de cet article est de relier les préférences des consommateurs pour les produits verts, les décisions d'investissement dans la recherche et le développement d'une industrie polluante et l'optimalité de la taxation de ses émissions polluantes dans le cadre des jeux en trois étapes...

This article studies the effects of a commodity tax on consumption and production behaviours in a green market and its implications for welfare components. The analysis rests on a review of vertical differentiation models assuming an ecological awareness of consumers. We distinguish two classes...

How are consumer attitudes towards eco-labeled products affected by a profusion of labels? This article provides both theoretical and empirical insight into this issue. Assuming that consumers perceive a label both as a sign of quality and of a particular characteristic of a product, we deduce...

In this paper, we analyse the effects of the introduction of a unit production cost beside a fixed cost of quality improvement in a duopoly model of vertical product differentiation. Thanks to an original methodology, we show that a low unit cost tends to reduce product differentiation and thus...

We examine the impact of an emission tax in a green market characterized by consumers' environmental awareness and competition between firms for both environmental quality and product prices. The unique aspect of this model comes from the assumption that the cost for an increase in quality is...