dc.contributor.author | Groenert, Valeska | |
dc.contributor.author | Zissimos, Ben | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-30T12:30:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-05-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a ‘second-mover advantage.’ In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to an otherwise familiar model of fiscal competition. Four distinct outcomes can be characterized by varying the marginal cost to firms of an environmental externality: (1) the outcome may be efficient; (2) the developing country may be a ‘pollution haven’ - a place to escape excessively high environmental standards in the developed country; (3) the developing country may ‘undercut’ the developed country and attract all firms; (4) the developed country may be a pollution haven. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grant”Consolidated Group-C” ECO2008- 04756 is gratefully acknowledged | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/jpet.12049 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9712 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental standards | en_GB |
dc.subject | developing countries | en_GB |
dc.subject | fiscal competition | en_GB |
dc.subject | second-mover advantage | en_GB |
dc.title | Developing country second-mover advantage in competition over environmental standards and taxes | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-30T12:30:28Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1097-3923 | |
dc.description | Pre-print version issued as CesInfo working paper No. 3686. The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-9779 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Public Economic Theory | en_GB |