Industrial Mobility and Public Policy

ISBN-13: 9783790809497 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 169 str.

U. Landwehr; Ulrich Landwehr

Opis

The book focuses on the consequences of industrial mobility for optimal public policy. A theoretical framework is introduced: There are several locations with independent governments, industries differ in mobility, and there are local markets for some resources (for instance, labour). The framework allows to explain that governments favour mobile industries in comparison to local immobile industries. Several determinants of industrial policy in favour of mobile industries are considered: Supply of local resources, demand for outputs, asymmetries between industries and locations, emissions, labour mobility, etc. Moreover, it is discussed how industrial policy in favour of mobile industries translates into environmental policy and social policy.
The approach and the results are new, the methods are basic.

Spis treści

1 Introduction.- 2 The Literature.- 2.1 Industrial policy.- 2.2 Environmental policy.- 3 The Model.- 3.1 Main elements.- 3.2 Assumptions.- 3.3 Market structures.- 3.4 Public preferences.- 3.5 Best reply.- 3.6 Conflict.- 3.7 Local cooperation.- 3.8 Global cooperation.- 3.9 Graphical illustration.- 3.10 Re-interpretations.- 3.11 Outlook on extensions.- 4 Basic Extensions.- 4.1 Social policy.- 4.2 Asymmetric industries.- 4.3 Asymmetric locations.- 4.4 Inter-industry substitution.- 4.5 Number of locations.- 5 Extensions Regarding Welfare.- 5.1 Local consumption.- 5.2 Local ownership of industries.- 5.3 Emissions and industrial policy.- 5.4 Emissions and environmental policy.- 5.5 Combination of policies.- 6 Extensions Regarding Mobility.- 6.1 Imperfect intra-industry substitution.- 6.2 Mobility of local resources.- 7 Conclusion.- References.- List of figures.- List of notations.