A Note on Pollution Regulation With Asymmetric Information

dc.creatorPench, Alberto
dc.date2017-04-01T20:22:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T10:17:45Z
dc.descriptionThe paper addresses the problem of information asymmetry between a regulator and the polluting firms and proposes a very simple mechanism where the regulator is free to choose, without communicating in advance to the firms, between two instruments: an effluent fee or a standard: as a result in a real world setting this uncertainty might induce firms to a truthful revelation. Moreover, under the assumption of linear marginal abatement or marginal social damage functions, in many cases the resulting optimal behaviour might be an under reporting for some firms and an over reporting for others so that the resulting marginal aggregate benefit function might be not so far from the true one and the aggregate pollution level attained by the mechanism not so far from optimal.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.232718
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232718/files/NDL2016-020.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232718
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/617328
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/232718
dc.titleA Note on Pollution Regulation With Asymmetric Information
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