STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Colluding against Environmental Regulation
Jorge Alechilet (University of the Andes), joint with Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, Mathias Reynaert
Monday 07 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00
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About this event
We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider a case of three German automakers colluding to reduce the effectiveness of emission control technology. By estimating a structural model of the European automobile industry from 2007 to 2018, we find that the collusion lowers expected noncompliance penalties substantially and increases buyer and producer surplus. Welfare decreases by EUR 0.73--2.51 billion because of increased pollution. We show how environmental policy design and antitrust play complementary roles in preventing noncompliance.
Industrial Organisation seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 12:30-14:00, in person in SAL 3.05, unless specified otherwise.
Seminar organiser: Alessandro Gavazza.
For further information please contact Sadia Ali: s.ali43@lse.ac.uk.
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