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T1 The Impact of Foresight in a Transboundary Pollution Game
A1 Benchekroun, Hassan
A1 Martín Herrán, Guiomar
AB We study the impact of foresight in a transboundary pollution game; i.e. the ability of a countryto control its emissions taking into account the relationship between current emissions and future levels of pollution and thus on future damages. We show that when all countries are myopic, i.e., choose the 'laisser-faire' policy, their payo s are smaller than when all countries are farsighted, i.e., non-myopic. However, in the case where one myopic country becomes farsighted we show that the welfare impact of foresight on that country is ambiguous. Foresight may be welfare reducing for the country that acquires it. This is due to the reaction of the other farsighted countries to that country's acquisition of foresight. The country that acquires foresight reduces its emissions while the other farsighted countries extend their emissions. The overall impact on total emissions is ambiguous. Moreover, our results suggest that incentive mechanisms, that involve a very small (possibly zero) present value of transfers, can play an important role in inducing a country to adopt a farsighted behavior and diminishing the number of myopic countries. These incentives would compensate the myopic country for the short-run losses incurred from the acquisition of foresight and can be reimbursed by that country from the gains from foresight that it enjoys in the long run.
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27724
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27724
LA eng
NO European Journal of Operational Research, 251, 300-309, 2016.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-may-2024