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題名 Increasing worldwide environmental consciousness and environmental policy adjustment
作者 Weng, Yungho;Hsu, Kuang-Chung;Liu, Bih Jane
翁永和
Weng, Yungho
貢獻者 經濟系
關鍵詞 Environmental consciousness ; Nash equilibrium policy ; Efficient policy ; Policy gap ; Environmental policy adjustment
日期 2018-08
上傳時間 18-Dec-2018 17:58:00 (UTC+8)
摘要 Increasing worldwide environmental consciousness has been driving countries in the world to adjust their environmental policies. Conventional wisdom often suggests tightening environmental policy, but this paper challenges that wisdom. By using an oligopoly model, we show that, in the case of local pollution, a country that confronts increasing environmental consciousness tightens or slackens its environmental policy depending on the relative cost competitiveness to its rivals. However, in the case of global pollution, all countries in the world always tighten their environmental policies as worldwide environmental consciousness rises. These results derived from the optimal non-cooperative (Nash) equilibrium policy that maximizes own country’s welfare are valid in the case of efficient policy setting in which policy is chosen to maximize global welfare. The policy gap between these two equilibria may increase or decrease as environmental consciousness changes, relying on the relative competitiveness to firm’s rivals and on the initial level of environmental 
關聯 Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2018.08.003
dc.contributor 經濟系
dc.creator (作者) Weng, Yungho;Hsu, Kuang-Chung;Liu, Bih Janeen_US
dc.creator (作者) 翁永和zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Weng, Yunghoen_US
dc.date (日期) 2018-08
dc.date.accessioned 18-Dec-2018 17:58:00 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 18-Dec-2018 17:58:00 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 18-Dec-2018 17:58:00 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/121431-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Increasing worldwide environmental consciousness has been driving countries in the world to adjust their environmental policies. Conventional wisdom often suggests tightening environmental policy, but this paper challenges that wisdom. By using an oligopoly model, we show that, in the case of local pollution, a country that confronts increasing environmental consciousness tightens or slackens its environmental policy depending on the relative cost competitiveness to its rivals. However, in the case of global pollution, all countries in the world always tighten their environmental policies as worldwide environmental consciousness rises. These results derived from the optimal non-cooperative (Nash) equilibrium policy that maximizes own country’s welfare are valid in the case of efficient policy setting in which policy is chosen to maximize global welfare. The policy gap between these two equilibria may increase or decrease as environmental consciousness changes, relying on the relative competitiveness to firm’s rivals and on the initial level of environmental en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Environmental consciousness ; Nash equilibrium policy ; Efficient policy ; Policy gap ; Environmental policy adjustmenten_US
dc.title (題名) Increasing worldwide environmental consciousness and environmental policy adjustmenten_US
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.qref.2018.08.003
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2018.08.003