Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155133 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 80. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
An increasingly popular instrument for solving environmental problems is the "public voluntary agreement (VA)", in which government offers modest technical assistance and positive publicity to firms that reach certain environmental goals. Prior papers treat such agreements as a superior, low-cost instrument that can be used to pre-empt a threat of traditional, inefficient, regulation. We present a more general model in which public Vas may instead be weak tools used when political opposition makes environmental taxes infeasible. We explore the conditions under which taxes, public VAs, and unilateral industry actions are to be expected, the implications for industry size, as well as the welfare implications of the various instruments.
Subjects: 
Self-regulation
public voluntary agreements
environmental regulation
JEL: 
D72
K32
L51
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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