"Reach for the sky": modeling the impact of policy stringency on industrial dynamics in the case of the REACH regulation

Authored by Nabila Arfaoui, Eric Brouillat, Jean Maider Saint

Date Published: 2018

DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtx029

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: LSD (Laboratory for Simulation Development)

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

An agent-based model is developed as an explorative tool to investigate how the REACH regulation can help bring safer substitutes to the market. An illustration is given with the case of bisphenol-A used in food packaging. Themodeling exercise enables an analysis of long-termeffects of REACH on innovation and industrial dynamics caused by misfits likely to emerge between objective and perceived stringency of regulation as well as misfits related to divergent perceptions between suppliers and clients.
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Agent-based model Performance Innovation Market Firm Instruments Green Profitability Environmental-policy Productivity growth Porter hypothesis Competitiveness