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What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically … infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We … transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …
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advertising motive. We analyze the impact of both the strength of mutual externalities and advertisement regulation policies on …
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sourcing incentives. We also develop a novel theory of vertical foreclosure as an equilibrium outcome of strategic transfer …
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We model the value chain of Carbon Capture, transport and Storage (CCS) by focusing on the decisions taking by actors involved in either capture, transport or storage of CO2. Plants emitting CO2 are located along a Salop circle. If these invest in carbon capture facilities, the captured CO2 is...
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This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory environments. We consider that the ISP could technically provide separate quality upgrades to two vertically differentiated content providers (CPs); therefore, it could...
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Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...
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-consistent policy rules that implement the stochastic first best as long as a future market exists. We apply our theory to carbon …
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We consider a therapeutic market with potentially three pharmaceutical firms. Two of the firms offer horizontally differentiated brand-name drugs. One of the brand-name drugs is a new treatment under patent protection that will be introduced if the profits are sufficient to cover the entry...
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Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264215
regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
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