Incentives, performance and desirability of socially responsible firms in a Cournot oligopoly

Economic Modelling

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-48

  Lambertini, Luca ^a   Tampieri, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

CSR; Environmental externality; Market stability; Pigouvian taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936760800     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.05.016     Document Type: Article

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