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Voluntary approaches to environmental protection: The role of legislative threats

Segerson, Kathleen; Miceli, Thomas J. - 1997

Recently, attention has turned to the use of voluntary agreements between regulators and polluters as an alternative to mandatory approaches based on regulation or legislation. Voluntary agreements have the potential to reduce compliance costs by allowing greater flexibility and to reduce...

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Environmental regulation through voluntary agreements

Gêarn Hansen, Lars - 1997

Voluntary agreements with polluting industries are becoming a popular alternative to traditional environmental regulation. One reason may be that voluntary agreements can reduce compliance costs of polluting industries. In this paper we develop a family of simple policy formulation and...

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A dynamic model of environmental policies: The case of innovation oriented voluntary agreements

Aggeri, F.; Hatchuel, Armand - 1997

classical approaches of regulation, particularly the regulatory capture theory and its agency-theory extensions. An explanation … theoretical and dynamic perspectives : H1 : an "operational" theory of legal regulation ; H2 : market transactions seen as … "reciprocal prescriptions"; H3 : firm's strategy formulation as an organizational learning process. Within this framework we can …

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Voluntary agreements with industry

Storey, Mark; Boyd, Gale Allen; Dowd, Jeffrey - 1997

Voluntary Agreements (VAs) are becoming increasingly prominent in many countries as a policy instrument for achieving improvements in the environmental performance of industry. They aim to encourage industry led initiatives to set and meet environmental goals, to raise the environmental profile...

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Electoral mechanisms and pressure groups: The mix of direct and indirect taxation

Fiorentini, Gianluca - 1997

This paper describes the fiscal structure of a community as an equilibrium of a non-cooperative game where members of different pressure groups - characterised by conflicting interests - compete to get distributive gains. Their interaction is regulated by a constitution which sets the electoral...

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Independent auditors as fiscal gatekeepers

Franzoni, Luigi Alberto - 1997

This paper develops a framework for the analysis of gatekeeping in tax enforcement, whereby independent auditors are assigned the duty of certifying taxpayers' reports. The equilibrium of the market for gatekeepers' services is characterised, as well as taxpayers' and auditors' optimal...

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Tax harmonisation: Does the unanimity rule play a role?

Grazzini, Lisa; VanYpersele, Tanguy - 1997

In this paper, we analyse tax harmonisation in the framework of two asymmetric countries, differing with respect to their capital-labour endowments. In the first part, we analyse how national fiscal policies are decided when countries play a non-cooperative game. At the Nash equilibrium,...

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The optimal enforcement of antitrust law

Polo, Michele - 1997

This paper analyses the optimal enforcement of competition policy against collusion under asymmetric information on cartel's costs and observable prices. The implementable price schedules are increasing, and the net profits decreasing, in cartel's costs, while expected penalties are increasing...

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Provision of quality and certification intermediaries

Albano, Gian Luigi; Lizzeri, Alessandro - 1997

If buyers do not observe the quality of a product and production of quality is costly, market allocations can be very inefficient. Certification intermediaries are institutions that provide information about quality to buyers. The amount of information in the market determines the incentives...

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Tariff creation and tariff diversion in a customs union: The endogenous external tariff of the EEC 1968 - 1983

Magee, Stephen P.; Lee, Hak-loh - 1997

theory of endogenous protection and endogenous free riding to the European Economic Community (the EEC). We use data from 51 …

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