Modeling green reputation decisions in a nonlinear Cournot duopoly of carbon emission abatement

IF 4.2 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Xiaoliang Li , Shuie Sun , Ally Quan Zhang
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Abstract

In response to consumer environmental awareness and carbon taxation, we develop a nonlinear Cournot duopoly model to examine how firms make green reputation decisions. Using symbolic computation methods, we analyze equilibrium strategies in both static and dynamic settings. Our results show that a firm’s emission abatement effort increases with its basic production cost, green efficiency, and carbon tax rate. Under nonlinear demand, less productive firms may exert greater effort to improve their green reputation, a phenomenon not observed under linear demand. Numerical simulations also show that excessive carbon taxes or low green efficiency can disrupt market equilibrium. Our study offers policymakers and business practitioners practical insights into how regulatory incentives and consumer preferences shape firms’ green strategies. The proposed framework supports the development of environmental policies that foster green transformation and support long-term market stability.
碳减排非线性古诺双寡头环境下的绿色声誉决策模型
针对消费者的环保意识和碳税,我们建立了一个非线性古诺双寡头模型来考察企业如何做出绿色声誉决策。采用符号计算方法,分析了静态和动态环境下的均衡策略。研究结果表明,企业的减排努力随其基本生产成本、绿色效率和碳税税率的增加而增加。在非线性需求下,生产率较低的企业可能会更努力地提高其绿色声誉,这一现象在线性需求下没有观察到。数值模拟还表明,过高的碳税或低的绿色效率会破坏市场平衡。我们的研究为政策制定者和商业从业者提供了关于监管激励和消费者偏好如何影响企业绿色战略的实际见解。拟议的框架支持制定促进绿色转型和支持长期市场稳定的环境政策。
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Economic Modelling
Economic Modelling ECONOMICS-
CiteScore
8.00
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10.60%
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295
期刊介绍: Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.
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