Does privatization improve the environment? Revisiting the monopoly case

作者：Saha Bibhas^*

来源：Economics Letters, 2012, 115(1): 97-99.

DOI：10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.017

• Pollution tax
• Partial privatization
• Public monopoly

This note shows that the argument of Beladi and Chao (2006) [Beladi, H., Chao, C., 2006. Does privatization improve the environment? Economics Letters 93, 343-347] that privatization can harm the environment by inducing lower pollution tax is incorrect. It then modifies the model to restore their claim.

• 出版日期2012-4