文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：The voluntary-threat approach to control nonpoint source pollution under uncertainty

作者：Li, Youping[1]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2013

卷号：129

起止页码：69

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

收录：;EI(收录号：20233414624306);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000327904400009)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000327904400009)】；

基金：This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China. The author wishes to thank Christian Vossler, Junjie Wu, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Nonpoint source pollution; Abatement; Voluntary-threat approach

摘要：This paper extends the voluntary-threat approach of Segerson and Wu (2006) to the case that the ambient level of nonpoint source pollution is stochastic. It is shown that when the random component is bounded from the above, fine-tuning the cutoff value of the tax payments avoids the actual imposition of the tax while the threat of such payments retains necessary incentive for the polluters to engage in abatements at the optimal level. If the random component is not bounded, the imposition of the tax cannot be completely avoided but the probability can be reduced by setting a higher cutoff value. It is also noted that the regulator has additional flexibility in randomizing the tax imposition but the randomization process has to be credible. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.