Ale-Chilet, Jorge, Chen, Cuicui, Li, Jing and Reynaert, Mathias (2021) Colluding against environmental regulation. TSE Working Paper, n. 21-1204, Toulouse

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Abstract

We study collusion among rms in response to imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms improve market prots by shading pollution and evade noncompliance penalties by shading jointly. We quantify the welfare eects of alleged collusion among three German automakers to reduce the size of diesel exhaust uid (DEF) tanks, an emission control technology used to comply with air pollution standards. We develop a structural model of the European automobile industry (2007-2018), where smaller DEF tanks create more pollution damages, but improve buyer and producer surplus by freeing up valuable trunk space and reducing production costs. We nd that choosing small DEF tanks jointly reduced the automakers' expected noncompliance penalties by at least 560 million euros. Antitrust and noncompliance penalties would reach between 1.46 and 14.63 billion euros to remedy the welfare damages of the alleged collusion.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: April 2021
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 15 Apr 2021 10:03
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2022 15:01
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:125488
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/43239
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