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Dynamic Games of Environmental Policy in a Global Economy: Taxes versus Quotas
Author(s) -
Yanase Akihiko
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2007.00690.x
Subject(s) - economics , externality , environmental policy , welfare , commodity , sequential game , stock (firearms) , international economics , microeconomics , natural resource economics , game theory , market economy , mechanical engineering , engineering
The effects of environmental policy on the global environment as an international public good with a stock externality and national welfare are examined in a model with trade in a polluting commodity. The welfare effects of environmental policy, decomposed into terms of trade, abatement cost, and environmental damage effects, induce governments to adopt a strategic use of their policy measures. In the absence of international cooperation on environmental policy, it is demonstrated that the emission tax game brings about larger strategic distortions than the emission quota game.