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Green and guilty: The interplay of environmental quality and greenwashing

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Clé publique

radar:r-22e4f3ffcc303d048978110b0b750efc

Auteurs

Federico Boffa · Piersilvio De Bortoli · Andrea Nicolodi

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

Première détection

2026-11-13T12:45:08.569426+00:00

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2026-11-13T12:45:08.569426+00:00

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Institutions déclarées par la source

Collegio Carlo Alberto · Free University of Bozen-Bolzano · Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth · Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica Sostenibile · National Research Council · University of Trento

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

IT

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

We develop a model with environmentally-conscious consumers whose utility depends on their perception of imperfectly observable firms’ environmental investments, and consumers differ in their level of sophistication. Firms can engage in greenwashing, i.e, in sending a costly message overstating their level of actual investments. We show that in equilibrium firms engage in greenwashing, and that greenwashing is complement to authentic green investments, rationalizing the available empirical evidence. We also show that both greenwashing and genuine investment decrease when consumers’ sophistication increases, and that a two product monopolist induces less (more) greenwashing and actual investments than two single product duopolists when products are substitutes (complements). Our findings imply a novel tradeoff between policies aimed at discouraging greenwashing or at fostering consumers’ awareness and the equilibrium level of genuine environmental investments.

Identifiants

OPENALEX

https://openalex.org/W4417399819

DOI

10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112744

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Famille documentaire

article

Types déclarés par les sources

article

Éditeurs

Elsevier BV

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OpenAlex · Document 1

• Document · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112744

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