Voluntary approaches for environmental policy

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380344
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: OHORI SHUICHI 関西大学, 総合情報学部, 教授 (70378959)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 紀國 洋 立命館大学, 経済学部, 教授 (90312339) ; 友田 康信 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30437280)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自主的環境保全 / 環境政策 / クールノー競争

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of the study is to consider certain conditions for voluntary environmental investment by firms. In our model, firms are set to do abatement investments as a first-mover.
The results are as follows. If the governments and the firms are strategic complementary and the government subscribes to the firms' claims, the optimal environmental tax is negative and so can improve social welfare.

Free Research Field

環境経済学