Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43441 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2010,3
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We construct a strategic trade model of an international duopoly, whereby production by exporting firms generates a local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for rent shifting purposes. Contrary to their firm, however, governments are unable to perfectly foresee the actual level of demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient conditions under which the governments optimally choose an emissions tax over an emissions standard.
Subjects: 
Strategic Environmental Policy
Pollution
Choice of Policy Instrument
Uncertainty
JEL: 
F12
F18
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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