 Environmental standard setting by a supra-regional authority: customisation or convergence?European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2003, vol. 30, issue 4, 415-437 Abstract: The paper studies the fixing of environmental standards by a supra-regional (e.g. European) authority when regional authorities have private information about local conditions. Institutionally, the standard-setting body is not authorised to levy taxes on the regions. We show that the elicitation of private information may require weaker environmental standards (i.e. higher pollution allowances) than the first-best solution. In this case, the social cost of the informational rent left to the region, in the form of increased pollution, can be such that bunching is optimal (the standards are less closely customised to region-specific conditions). In the extreme, the informational cost can be such that it is optimal to disregard the regional characteristics and to require convergence. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press. Date: 2003 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:erevae:v:30:y:2003:i:4:p:415-437 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article European Review of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Timothy Richards, Salvatore Di Falco, Céline Nauges and Vincenzina Caputo More articles in European Review of Agricultural Economics from Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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