研討日期

2023122510:30-12:20

研討地點

國立臺灣大學社會科學院710會議室

主講題目

Title of the paper

International trade and environmental corporate social responsibility

作者

Authors of the paper

Juan Carlos Bárcena-Ruiz, Amagoia Sagasta

文獻出處

Journal, vol.(issue), pp

Energy Economics

Volume 115, November 2022, 106104

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106104

主講人

Suwannajoi Suttiwan

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、王光正、施全、許至乙、Bui Dang-long、周冰瑤、Ayu Sasni MunteChisomo Mkwandah、葉定豊、Artah、楊雅棠、呂明權

This paper analyzes firms' incentives to engage in environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) in an international market under imperfect competition. We find that in the absence of environmental taxes firms do not adopt ECSR. However, the implementation of environmental taxes by governments encourages firms to adopt ECSR under local damage. Consumers, producers, and environmentalists are better off if firms decide to be environmentally responsible than if they decide not to. We also find that the decision to adopt ECSR depends on transboundary pollution. Under global damage firms engage in ECSR only if they are highly concerned about the environment. This means that the existence of transboundary pollution negatively affects the incentives of firms to be environmentally friendly. Finally, we find that when governments cooperatively determine their environmental taxes, firms engage in ECSR under both local and global damage. Thus, under global damage firms have greater incentives to be environmentally friendly when governments cooperate on environmental policies than when they do not.