Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/159522
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 681
Publisher: 
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
We model a dynamic monopoly with environmental externalities,investigating the adoption of a tax levied on the firm's instantaneous contribution to the accumulation of pollution. The latter process is subject to a shock, which is i.i.d. across instants. We prove the existence of an optimal tax rate such that the monopoly replicates the same steady state welfare level as under social planning. Yet, the corresponding output level, R&D investment for environmental friendly technologies and surplus distribution necessarily differ from the socially optimal ones.
JEL: 
C61
H21
H23
Q52
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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