Technological choice under environmentalists’ participation in Emissions Trading Systems

Elias Asproudis and Maria José Gil-Moltó ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maria Jose Gil Molto

No 09/9, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: We model competition in an emissions trading system (ETS) as a game between two firms and environmental group. In a previous stage, firms endogenously choose their manufacturing technologies. Our results show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between how polluting the chosen technology is and the degree of the environmentalists' impure altruism. Firms choose a less polluting technology in the presence of the environmentalists than in their absence only if they are characterised by intermediate degrees of impure altruism.

Keywords: ETS; Technology Choice; Induced Technological Change; Impure Altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 O31 Q30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env and nep-res
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.le.ac.uk/economics/research/RePEc/lec/leecon/dp09-9.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lec:leecon:09/9

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://www2.le.ac.u ... -1/discussion-papers

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester School of Business, University of Leicester, University Road. Leicester. LE1 7RH. UK Provider-Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Abbie Sleath ().