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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... benefits . The TCA column includes costs and benefits that were accounted in the company analysis under headings which obscured their relation to the project . These hidden , or indirect , costs and benefits included costs of waste ...
... benefits depending on the method of revenue recycling . Their benefits arise , however , from the replacement of a distortionary tax by a relatively less distortionary one . In practise this would mean that the tax should be advocated ...
... benefits which can be captured by firms from knowledge about the relative ecoprofile of products . In most sectors direct economic or other benefits cannot be appropriated by firms because : life cycles are fragmented between producers ...
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frameworks | 13 |
theory | 33 |
International competitiveness and carbon taxation | 71 |
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