Paper Title
Recycled Content Standards and Privatization in a Mixed Duopoly

Abstract
We examine the policies of recycled content standard before and after privatization in a mixed duopoly with vertically related markets, in which downstream public and private firms purchase a certain percentage of recyclable materials as an input from the upstream recyclers to produce the final output. We find that when the marginal harmfulness of waste is large enough (small enough), the government chooses not to privatize the public firm and, the optimal recycled content standard (RCS) ratio is one (zero). When the marginal harmfulness of waste is at an intermediate level, the government will choose to privatize the public firm in combination with interior optimal RCS ratio. Keywords - Recycled Content Standards, Privatization Policy, Mixed Duopoly