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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Tailored Regulation: Will Voluntary Site-Specific Environmental Performance Standards Improve Welfare?
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| Autores: |
Blackman, Allen
Boyd, James
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| Data: |
2005-10-25
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| Ano: |
2000
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| Palavras-chave: |
Tailored regulation
Voluntary
Site-specific
Performance standards
Regulatory reform
Environmental Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
Increasingly popular tailored regulation (TR) initiatives like EPA's Project XL allow plants to voluntarily substitute site-specific environmental performance standards for command-and-control regulations that dictate pollution abatement strategies. TR can significantly reduce participants' costs of complying with environmental regulations. But in doing so, it can also provide participants with a competitive advantage. We show that this can have undesirable welfare consequences when it enables relatively inefficient firms in oligopolistic markets to "steal" market share from more efficient firms. One critical determinant of whether or not TR has such adverse welfare impacts is the regulator's policy regarding the diffusion of TR agreements among non-participating firms.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
18504
http://purl.umn.edu/10740
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Resources for the Future>Discussion Papers
Discussion Paper 00-03-REV
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| Formato: |
32
application/pdf
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