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Voluntary approaches, market structure and competition

This paper surveys the recent literature devoted to the analysis of the interactions between the adoption of voluntary or negotiated agreements as a tool of environmental policy and market structure. The goal of this survey is twofold. On the one hand, we would like to identify the market environment which is most favourable to the adoption of voluntary approaches, namely whether these are more likely to be signed within industries that are more or less concentrated. On the other hand, we aim at assessing the effects of voluntary approaches on market structure and industry concentration. Our findings suggest that the signature of voluntary approaches is favoured by a situation in which industry is more concentrated. Moreover, the adoption of voluntary approaches is likely to further increase industry concentration. This clearly raises a trade-off between environmental benefits and economic costs provided by the adoption of voluntary approaches that must be dealt with an appropriate policy-mix.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 53.1999

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Regulation and Industrial Policy: Other
Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics: General
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
Thema
Environmental regulation
Voluntary approaches
Market structure
Competition
Umweltpolitik
Selbstverpflichtung
Marktstruktur
Wettbewerb
Markteintritt
Spieltheorie
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brau, Rinaldo
Carraro, Carlo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
(wo)
Milano
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brau, Rinaldo
  • Carraro, Carlo
  • Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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