Endogenous timing in private and mixed duopolies with emission taxes

Sang-Ho Lee () and Lili Xu ()

Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 124, issue 2, No 5, 175-201

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines an endogenous timing game in product differentiated duopolies under price competition when emission tax is imposed on environmental externality. We show that a simultaneous-move (sequential-move) outcome can be an equilibrium outcome in a private duopoly under significant (insignificant) environmental externality, but this result can be reversed in a mixed duopoly. We also show that when environmental externalities are significant, public leadership yields greater welfare than private leadership, and that public leadership is more robust than private leadership as an equilibrium outcome. Finally, we find that privatization can result in a public leader becoming a private leader, but this worsens welfare.

Keywords: Emission tax; Endogenous timing; Mixed duopoly; Private duopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 L5 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s00712-017-0565-1

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