Economic and environmental strategies against targeting energy subsidy in Iranian meat market: A game theory approach

Effects of shared governance and cost redistribution on air pollution control: a study of game theory–based cooperation

“…This study focuses on seeking cost-effective strategies for PM2.5 reduction to generate insights into minimizing pollution abatement costs subject to different scenarios. The results from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan cluster in China show that cooperation in the metropolitan cluster plays a vital role in optimizing the efficiency and costs of PM2.5 abatement, which is similar to the research results of Shi et al ( 2016 ) and Fathi and Bakhshoodeh ( 2021 ). Besides, this study provides a way to estimate the costs and the mitigation benefits of meeting the pollution targets for each coparticipant and take the scenario of multiparty cooperation into account as well as the scenarios involving other types of pollutants.…”

“…Different from the existing game theory studies, this study first focuses on the cost redistribution on air pollution control. By applying the threshold effect-adjusted game model, this study extends the literature (Zara et al 2006;Sumaila et al 2009;Wei et al 2010;Madani 2010;Shi et al 2016;Fathi and Bakhshoodeh 2021;Gu et al 2022;Zheng and Yu 2022) by proposing cost-effective, socially acceptable, and administrative-feasible cooperation strategies of PM2.5 mitigation to internalize the environmental externalities equitably as well as cost-effectively. This study is among the first to revise the nonlinear programming by threshold effects to better fit the true cost curve of fine particulate abatement based on cities from metropolitan areas, as well as estimate further numerical costs and potential benefits from shared governance.…”

“…Game theory is generally employed to study governance or pollution control since Kilgour et al ( 1988 ). Scholars have explored the pollution control of transboundary river basin (Shi et al 2016 ), the energy subsidy (Fathi and Bakhshoodeh 2021 ), the subsidy strategy of carbon-sink fishery (Zheng and Yu 2022 ), the behavioral game of additional supervision (Gu et al 2022 ), and so on. Different from the existing game theory studies, this study first focuses on the cost redistribution on air pollution control.…”

“…GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions between regions are different. Fathi and Bakhshoodeh ( 2021 ) investigated the losses (benefits) of GHG emissions in the Iranian meat market by the policy of removing energy subsidy. Gu et al ( 2022 ) proposed an evolutionary game model of government and enterprises controlled by a third party.…”

“…Thus, the optimization of fine particulate abatement is a rewarding goal of governance policy and improves coherence in economic and environmental objectives. Game theory is generally employed to study such problems because it permits the analysis of the strategies and behaviors of different agents under certain behavioral assumptions (Zara et al 2006 ; Sumaila et al 2009 ; Wei et al 2010 ; Madani 2010 ; Shi et al 2016 ; Fathi and Bakhshoodeh 2021 ).Considering the potential importance of shared governance in the context of air pollution control, this study explores and empirically demonstrates the costs and benefits of shared governance on fine particulate reduction, especially PM2.5. This model consists of nonlinear programming revised by threshold effects for minimizing the aggregate costs of fine particulate abatement in metropolitan areas.…”