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Article dans une revue European Journal of Law and Economics Année : 2007

Industrialists hand in hand with environmentalists: how eco-labeling schemes can help firms to raise rivals' costs

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Industrialists may promote eco-labeling schemes in order to gain the support of environmentalists and ultimately gain market protection. Beyond the environmental effects of such coalitions, these schemes can provide industrialists a legitimate way to disadvantage rivals, frequently foreign rivals, by raising their costs. We consider a Stackelberg model that determines the conditions under which a domestic firm has incentive to impose an eco-label in order to raise the costs of its foreign rivals. The effects of eco-labeling on domestic social welfare are ambiguous. Policy recommendations are drawn. Notably, factors that may help policy makers to identify situations more vulnerable to undesirable outcomes from a welfare viewpoint are developed.
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hal-01072408, version 1 (12-09-2023)

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Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez, Naoufel Mzoughi. Industrialists hand in hand with environmentalists: how eco-labeling schemes can help firms to raise rivals' costs. European Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 24 (3), pp.215-236. ⟨10.1007/s10657-007-9034-6⟩. ⟨hal-01072408⟩
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