International Competitiveness and Environmental PoliciesTerry Barker, Jonathan Köhler E. Elgar Pub., 1998 - 284 pages Government policies to reduce environmental pollution and global warming are often criticized as damaging to the economy, particularly by reducing international competitiveness. This book addresses the issue by examining many of the policies concerned, and their effects on competitiveness. It demonstrates that well-designed, market-oriented environmental policies may be expected to improve both domestic and international competitiveness. The authors dismiss the fear that environmental policies will damage competitiveness by approaching the issue from four different perspectives: the economic analysis of competitiveness; a geo-economic approach to trade and foreign investment between Europe, NAFTA and Southeast Asia; studies of the effects of environmental policies on competitiveness; and the formal modelling of carbon taxation, international competitiveness and carbon leakage. The book also includes results from a global econometric model on the potential for carbon leakage, a detailed case study of German national policies, an examination of life cycle analysis and competitiveness, and an empirical study of green product development. This book will be of great interest to academics working in the field of environmental economics and researchers involved in environmental policy. |
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... EGEM model , estimating leakages associated with the relocation of energy - intensive sectors on the basis of historical sectoral importance and the relative price of oil , is necessitated by the aggregate formulation of the model ...
... EGEM to study leakage will be described . EGEM is based on the London Business School Global Econometric Model ( GEM ) , with additional equations added to describe the energy sector and carbon emissions . A more thorough description of ...
... EGEM , the model described in the paper , is no exception . Some important linkages are left completely out of account , such as effects on the fuel choice ( especially between oil and coal ) in LDCs and the possibility of modernization ...
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frameworks | 13 |
theory | 33 |
International competitiveness and carbon taxation | 71 |
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