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G. Feichtinger, L. Lambertini, G. Leitmann, S. Wrzaczek:
"Managing the tragedy of commons and polluting emissions: A unified view";
European Journal of Operational Research, 303 (2022), S. 487 - 499.

We address the issue of regulating both polluting emissions through a generic tax and access to a com- mon resource pool in a dynamic oligopoly game. Our analysis shows that once industry structure is regu- lated so as to induce the industry to harvest the resource in correspondence of the maximum sustainable yield, social welfare is either independent or decreasing in the tax if firms do not invest in abatement technologies, while, if they do, the policy maker may increase the tax to foster both individual and aggre- gate green research and development to attain abatement technologies, ideally up to the level at which emissions and the associated environmental damage are nil. This also allows us to detect the arising of the win-win solution associated to the strong form of the Porter hypothesis. We extend the analysis to encompass product differentiation and monopolistic competition, to show that qualitatively analogous conclusions obtain.

OR in environment and climate change Sustainability Differential games Green research and development Porter hypothesis

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.02.034

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