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The Production of Eco-Labels

Christopher Bruce () and Andrea Laroiya

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2007, vol. 36, issue 3, 275-293

Abstract: Eco-labeling is a market-based technique for conveying information about consumers’ demands for environmental protection. Most criticisms of eco-labeling have concentrated on demand-side issues – the potential for firms or countries to use eco-labels to manipulate market power – and the difficulty of creating credible labels. In this paper, we argue that fundamental problems also arise on the production side. Specifically, we argue that both increasing returns to scale and complexities in production imply that it will be possible to market only a small percentage of environmental attributes through the use of eco-labels. We present evidence for our hypotheses from a detailed survey of 100 randomly-selected consumer products. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

Keywords: consumer demand; eco-labeling; endangered species; environmental decision-making; production function; P48; Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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