Arbeitspapier

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Mixed Oligopoly

This paper investigates how CSR firms influence a Cournot oligopoly with pollution. We define as CSR a firm that takes into account not only its profits but also internalises its own share of the externality and is sensitive to consumer surplus. The CSR firm obtains higher profits compared to profit-seeking firms. Also, the presence of at least one CSR firm improves social welfare and makes the first best Pigouvian taxation more lenient for Cournot firms. Finally, the CSR firm may induce the other firms to invest in green technology.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 723

Classification
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lambertini, Luca
Tampieri, Alessandro
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
(where)
Bologna
(when)
2010

DOI
doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4518
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Lambertini, Luca
  • Tampieri, Alessandro
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)

Time of origin

  • 2010

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