 Game models of environmental policy in an open economyThe Annals of Regional Science, 1996, vol. 30, issue 2, 185-200 Abstract: In this paper we study some aspects of the question of international environmental regulation from a game theoretic perspective. We address two broad questions. First, we examine the circumstances under which the pursuit of unilateral environmental policy by a country in a Stackelberg game, will make that country worse off. Second, we study the effects of environmental regulation by means of alternate price control instruments in a Stackelberg game when there is transboundary pollution. We find that there are plausible theoretical circumstances in which the pursuit of unilateral environmental policy is not a good idea. Further, we show that in choosing between alternate pollution control instruments, national governments typically face a tradeoff between instruments which correct more distortions but are costly to implement and instruments which correct fewer distortions but are less costly to implement. In particular, we obtain a dominance result for a tariff policy; this result favors the use of tariffs from an informational standpoint alone. Date: 1996 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:spr:anresc:v:30:y:1996:i:2:p:185-200 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The Annals of Regional Science is currently edited by Martin Andersson, E. Kim and Janet E. Kohlhase More articles in The Annals of Regional Science from Springer, Western Regional Science Association Contact information at EDIRC. |
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