On the effect of social norms to reduce pollution

Andrea Mantovani, Ornella Tarola and Cecilia Vergari ()

Working Papers from Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna

Abstract: We analyse how market competition in a vertically differentiated polluting industry is affected by product variants that comply at different levels with "green" social norms. A green consumption behaviour is considered as a byword of good citizenship. Consumer preferences depend on a combination of hedonic quality and compliance with the norms. Assuming that the high hedonic quality variant complies less with the norms than the low hedonic quality one, we characterize the different equilibrium configurations, depending on the perceived intensity of such norms. Then, we focus on the role that institutions may have in using these norms to reduce pollution emissions.

JEL-codes: D62 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ene, nep-env, nep-res and nep-soc
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