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Karp, Larry S.. |
We study a model in which the level of environmental regulation depends on abatement costs, which depend on aggregate levels of investment in abatement capital. Firms are non-strategic. When emissions quotas are not tradable, there are multiple competitive equilibria to the investment problem. Allowing trade in permits leads to a unique socially optimal equilibrium. For a given distribution of investment, allowing trade in permits has an ambiguous effect on the optimal level of regulation. Previous results on coordination games with non-atomic agents are applied to the problem of environmental regulation with endogenous investment in abatement capital. |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Tradable permits; Coordination games; Multiple equilibria; Global games; Environmental Economics and Policy; C79; L51; Q58. |
Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7202 |
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