Information Provision in Environmental Policy Design

Vera Danilina*, Alexander Grigoriev

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Information provision is a relatively recent but steadily growing environmental policy tool. Its emergency and topicality are due to the current escalation of ecological threats. Meanwhile, its high complexity and flexibility require a comprehensive approach to its design, which has to be tailored for specific characteristics of production process, market structure, and regulatory goals. This work proposes such an approach and builds a framework based on a three-level mathematical program extending well-known two-level Stackelberg game by introducing one more economic agent and one extra level of this sequential game. This study provides simple and very intuitive algorithms to compute optimal multi-tier information provision policies, both mandatory and voluntary. The paper urges for the wide implementation of such efficient environmental policy design tools.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Environmental Informatics
Volume36
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

JEL classifications

  • h23 - "Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies"

Keywords

  • Eco-certification
  • Eco-labelling
  • Environmental policy
  • Exact algorithms
  • Information provision
  • Multi-level mathematical programming
  • Stackelberg game
  • multi-level mathematical programming
  • eco-labelling
  • information provision
  • stackelberg game
  • CHOICE
  • exact algorithms
  • environmental policy
  • eco-certification

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