Strategic Investment by a Regulated Firm

Amihai Glazer and Eckhard Janeba

International Tax and Public Finance, 2004, vol. 11, issue 2, 123-132

Abstract: A government's choice of regulatory stringency can depend on investments that a firm made in earlier periods. The regulated firm may therefore invest strategically, to effect the government's choice of regulation. To reduce its payment of emissions taxes, the firm may therefore reduce emissions below their socially optimal level. In contrast, a firm subject to regulation by quantity wants to reduce the stringency of regulations. A firm which invests little thereby reduces the marginal social cost of reducing emissions, and so can induce government to weaken its regulations.

Date: 2004
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