Menus of price-quantity contracts for inducing the truth in environmental regulation.

Many authors have proposed mechanisms to induce regulated polluting firms to truthfully reveal their private information. This paper proposes an alternative scheme in which the regulator offers each firm a menu of linear price-quantity contracts; faced with this menu, each firm′s dominant strategy i...

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Publicado en:Journal of Environmental Economics & Management Vol. 83; pp. 1 - 8
Autor principal: Shrestha, Ratna K.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. May2017
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