Environmental attitudes and impacts of privatization on R&D, environment and welfare in a mixed duopoly

Ekonomska Istraživanja

Tingting Tan¹  Mingqing Xing² 

[1] Business School, Huzhou University;School of Economics and Management, Weifang University;

关键词: environmental r&d;    cleaner production technology;    mixed duopoly;    privatization;    environmental tax;    environmental concern;   

DOI  :  10.1080/1331677X.2020.1804968

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We introduce the environmental attitudes of the public firm into a polluting mixed duopoly and then examine the effects of privatization on the environmental R&D (ER&D), the environmental quality and the social welfare. The government levies an exogenous environmental tax on pollution and both firms adopt the cleaner production technology to reduce emissions. We mainly find that, when the public firm cares less about the environment, privatization can induce both firms’ ER&D and better the environment. However, the opposite may appear when the public firm cares much for the environment. In addition, whether privatization improves or reduces the social welfare in the case of high marginal environmental damage depends on the environmental attitudes of the public firm and the environmental tax rates.

【 授权许可】

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