RT Journal Article
T1 Environmental taxation and mergers in oligopoly markets with product differentiation.
A1 Fikru, Mahelet G.
A1 Gautier, Luis
K1 Impuestos ambientales
K1 Oligopolios
K1 Sociedades - Fusión
AB We analyze the effect of mergers on optimal environmental taxation in aCournot oligopoly market with product differentiation. Our result indicates that theadjustment in emission tax crucially depends on the post-merger output distortion andpollution intensities. Specifically, we find that the optimal emission tax increases postmergeras long as pollution intensity of firms is higher and output distortion smallerpost-merger than pre-merger. Furthermore, our result suggests that there is no needto revise environmental policy in markets where pollution intensity of firms does notchange post-merger and (i) products are completely differentiated, or (ii) there aremany firms for any degree of product differentiation.
PB Springer
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31834
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31834
LA eng
NO Fikru, M.G., Gautier, L. Environmental taxation and mergers in oligopoly markets with product differentiation. J Econ 122, 45–65 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-017-0531-y
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/16656
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026