Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77773 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Citation: 
[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 1 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 277-304
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We consider a model of polluting firms subject to tax on emissions, monitoring, and penalties in case of underreporting and which face a choice between a more expensive clean and a less expensive dirty technology. Moreover, emissions are subject to random events.We show that the optimal monitoring is a cut-off policy, where all reports below a threshold are inspected with the same probability, while reports above the threshold are not monitored. If the adoption of the technology is firms' private information, too few firms will adopt the clean technology under the optimal monitoring policy. However, when the environmental agency can check the technology adopted by the firms, the optimal policy may induce overswitching or underswitching to the clean technology.
Subjects: 
production technology
random emissions
environmental taxes
optimal monitoring policy
JEL: 
K32
K42
D82
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Document Type: 
Article

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