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Environmental Taxation Location: D-106 Session Chair: Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta | |
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Abatement Thresholds: How Merger Prospects Affect Green Investments 1: Washington State University, United States of America; 2: University of Malaga, Spain This paper studies how investments in abatement affect merger decisions. We show that aggregate abatement needs to reach a minimum threshold to induce a merger approval, which is analogous to public good games with threshold effects. This can provide firms with stronger incentives to invest in abatement than in traditional models, reducing net emissions, and requiring less stringent emission fees than in settings where firms do not face merger prospects. Our extensions explore different regulatory regimes, alternative timings, allowing for environmental research cartels, cost convexities, and spillovers, identifying in each case how mergers are affected. | |