The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm
Non-point sources of pollution include urban runoff, agricultural runoff, sediment from construction sites, and atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Ambient charges as an environmental policy instrument for decreasing non-point source pollution are mainly examined within profit-maximizing oligopoly...
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Mashhad: Behzad Hassannezhad Kashani
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| description | Non-point sources of pollution include urban runoff, agricultural runoff, sediment from construction sites, and atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Ambient charges as an environmental policy instrument for decreasing non-point source pollution are mainly examined within profit-maximizing oligopoly models. This study considers a Cournot mixed duopoly game model involving a capitalist firm and a labor-managed firm to reevaluate the effects of ambient charges as an environmental policy instrument for mitigating non-point source pollution. The capitalist firm maximizes its overall profit, whereas the labor-managed firm focuses on maximizing profit per worker. The structure of the game is as follows. The government regulator first announces the ambient charge, and then the capitalist firm and the labor-managed firm independently and simultaneously decide their output levels. This study shows that there exists a situation where an increase in the ambient charge can reduce environmental pollution. As a result of the analysis, the study finds that ambient charges could be an effective way to manage non-point source pollution, even in Cournot mixed duopoly. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-99f38a024f5945599afd18fada7a7f932025-08-20T02:05:46ZengMashhad: Behzad Hassannezhad KashaniInternational Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics2383-21262025-03-0112348849510.5281/zenodo.15096750216677The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist FirmKazuhiro Ohnishi0Department of Economics, Institute for Economic Sciences, Kobe, JapanNon-point sources of pollution include urban runoff, agricultural runoff, sediment from construction sites, and atmospheric deposition of pollutants. Ambient charges as an environmental policy instrument for decreasing non-point source pollution are mainly examined within profit-maximizing oligopoly models. This study considers a Cournot mixed duopoly game model involving a capitalist firm and a labor-managed firm to reevaluate the effects of ambient charges as an environmental policy instrument for mitigating non-point source pollution. The capitalist firm maximizes its overall profit, whereas the labor-managed firm focuses on maximizing profit per worker. The structure of the game is as follows. The government regulator first announces the ambient charge, and then the capitalist firm and the labor-managed firm independently and simultaneously decide their output levels. This study shows that there exists a situation where an increase in the ambient charge can reduce environmental pollution. As a result of the analysis, the study finds that ambient charges could be an effective way to manage non-point source pollution, even in Cournot mixed duopoly.https://www.ijmae.com/article_216677_1c3f67c3514e6dc2575acd8da7830f8f.pdfcournot duopoly gameambient chargeenvironmental pollutioncapitalist firmlabor-managed firm |
| spellingShingle | Kazuhiro Ohnishi The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics cournot duopoly game ambient charge environmental pollution capitalist firm labor-managed firm |
| title | The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm |
| title_full | The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm |
| title_fullStr | The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm |
| title_short | The Effects of Ambient Charges in a Cournot Duopoly with a Labor-Managed Firm and a Capitalist Firm |
| title_sort | effects of ambient charges in a cournot duopoly with a labor managed firm and a capitalist firm |
| topic | cournot duopoly game ambient charge environmental pollution capitalist firm labor-managed firm |
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