Environmental Economics and the International Economy

ISBN-13: 9781402008412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 260 str.

Laura Marsiliani;Michael Rauscher;Cees Withagen

Opis

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference The International Dimension of Environmental Policy held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000. We would like to thank those who made this conference possible: the European Science Foundation (ESF), which provided financial and organizational support; the European Commission EURESCO Programme; the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which sponsored the conference under the research project: Environmental Policy, International Competitiveness and the Location Behavior of Firms; and GLOBUS, Tilburg University. The European Science Foundation (ESF), the EURESCO Programme, NWO and GlOBUS cannot be held responsible for the contents and/or opinions expressed in this volume. Our gratitude also goes to the people who assisted us in editing this volume: the papers referees, the authors, our publisher Kluwer, and Ineke Lavrijssen and Evelyn Rogge for invaluable editorial help at different stages of this project. Laura Marsiliani W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, USA and Department of Economics and Finance, University of Durham, United Kingdom; Michael Rauscher Institute of Economics, Rostock University, Germany; Cees Withagen Department of Economics and CentER, Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Marsiliani, L., Rauscher, M. and Withagen, C] (eds.), Environmental Economics and the International Economy], vii."

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. Greener Taxes, Freer Trade? Environmental Policy and Tariff Reduction in a Second-Best World; S. Smulders, P. Sen. North-South Trade and Pollution Migration: The Debate Revisited; M. Keswani Mehra, S.P. Das. Regulatory Competition, Transboundary Pollution and International Trade; I. Péchoux, J. Pouyet. Modelling Commitment in a Multi-Stage Models of Location, Trade and Environment; A. Ulph, L. Valentini. International Competition and Investment in Abatement: Taxes versus Standards; T. Feenstra, et al. Environmental Policy Under Product Differentiation and Asymmetric Costs: Does Leapfrogging Occur and Is It Worth It? J. Rothfels. The Stringency of Environmental Regulation and the 'Porter Hypothesis'; T. Roediger-Schluga. Measuring the Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: A New Empirical Paradigm; J.A. List, D.L. Millimet. The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Capital Flows: Some Methodological Considerations; C.Y. Co, et al. Environmental Policy and Firms' Decision-Making About Location Choice. Application of a Decision-Making Model to the Case of a Fertilizer Plant; H. van der Veen, et al. The Efficiency, Equity and Politics of Emissions Permit Trading; M. Wooders, B. Zissimos. Should Emissions Reduction Units Be Tradable? M. Liski. The Kyoto Regime, Changing Patterns of International Trade and Carbon Leakage; O. Kuik, H. Verbruggen.