Animal Welfare, Moral Consumers and the Optimal Regulation of Animal Food Production

Thomas Eichner and Marco Runkel

No 10149, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Within a general equilibrium model, this paper identifies a novel animal welfare externality that occurs if the private animal friendliness in a market economy falls short of the social animal friendliness used by the social planner when determining the efficient allocation. The animal welfare externality causes an inefficiently high quantity and an inefficiently low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more intense regulation in the sector with the worse living conditions of animals.

Keywords: animal welfare; altruism; morality; non-anthropocentrism; meat tax; subsidy on animal food quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 H20 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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