Strategy Proof Uniform Effort Sharing Schemes For Transfrontier Pollution Problems

Johan Eyckmans ()

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1999, vol. 14, issue 2, 165-189

Abstract: Uniform effort sharing rules for transfrontier pollution problems, like the popular equal percentage reduction arrangement, do not result in a cost efficient allocation of emission abatement efforts. In addition, they may violate voluntary participation constraints if the uniform effort level is decided upon by means of ordinary majority vote. In contrast to ordinary majority vote, I consider in this paper the so-called conservative mechanism by Moulin (1994) which picks the smallest revealed effort level in stead of the median. The conservative mechanism always respects a weak participation constraint. Moreover, it is coalitionally strategy proof meaning that no individual player, or group of players, can achieve a better outcome by misrepresenting its preferences for environmental quality. In order to remedy the cost inefficiency of the equal percentage arrangements, I propose to apply the conservative mechanism to the choice of a uniform emission tax rate. Simulations for the greenhouse effect indicate that the latter mechanism does considerably better than the traditional equal percentage arrangement. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: mechanism design; strategy proofness; transfrontier pollution problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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