Regulation via the Polluter-pays Principle
Stefan Ambec
(1, 2, 3)
,
Lars Ehlers
(4, 5)
Stefan Ambec
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 1375975
- ORCID : 0000-0002-9066-5035
Résumé
We consider the problem of regulating an economy with environmental pollution. We examine the distributional impact of the polluter-pays (PP) principle which requires that any agent compensates all other agents for the damages caused by his or her (pollution) emissions. With constant marginal damages we show that regulation via the PP principle leads to the unique welfare distribution that induces non-negative individual welfare change and renders each agent responsible for his or her pollution impact. We extend both the PP principle and this result to increasing marginal damages due to pollution. We also compare the PP principle with the Vickrey–Clark–Groves scheme.
Domaines
Sciences de l'Homme et Société| Format du dépôt | Fichier |
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| Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
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Regulation via the Polluter-pays Principle
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| Résumé |
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We consider the problem of regulating an economy with environmental pollution. We examine the distributional impact of the polluter-pays (PP) principle which requires that any agent compensates all other agents for the damages caused by his or her (pollution) emissions. With constant marginal damages we show that regulation via the PP principle leads to the unique welfare distribution that induces non-negative individual welfare change and renders each agent responsible for his or her pollution impact. We extend both the PP principle and this result to increasing marginal damages due to pollution. We also compare the PP principle with the Vickrey–Clark–Groves scheme.
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| Auteur(s) |
Stefan Ambec
1, 2, 3
, Lars Ehlers
4, 5
1
LEERNA -
Laboratoire d'Economie de l'Environnement et des Ressources Naturelles
( 3645 )
- Leerna-Inra - Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse - Manufacture des Tabacs
- France
2
IDEI -
Institut d'Economie Industrielle
( 199449 )
- Manufacture des Tabacs, Aile Jean-Jacques Laffont, 21 allée de Brienne 31015 Toulouse Cedex 6
- France
3
GU -
Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg
( 302859 )
- Box 100, SE-405 30 Göteborg
- Suède
4
Département de Sciences Economiques
( 92005 )
- Canada
5
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative
( 322112 )
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- France
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| Langue du document |
Anglais
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| Nom de la revue |
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| Volume |
126
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| Numéro |
593
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| Page/Identifiant |
884-906
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| Date de publication |
2016
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| Commentaire |
We are especially grateful to anonymous referees and the Editor Martin Cripps for their helpful comments and suggestions. This research started while the second author was visiting Toulouse School of Economics (INRA-LERNA). It received financial support from INRA (France), the ANR (France) through the project ANR-12-BSH1-0003-01 on ‘Political Economy of the Environment’, the SSHRC (Canada) and the FRQSC (Québec).
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Internationale
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| Vulgarisation |
Non
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| Comité de lecture |
Oui
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| Public visé |
Scientifique
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| Sous-type de document pour les Articles |
Research article
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| Indexation contrôlée |
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| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12184 |
| ProdINRA | 320785 |
| UT key WOS | 000378640800004 |
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