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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... environmental policy may have implications for competitiveness if it imposes on some firms costs which are not imposed on their competitors . However , it may not always be the case that environmental policy imposes costs on firms ...
... environmental policy that is desired for its environmental gains , the risks of not achieving it mean that it is unlikely to be an appropriate motivator for environmental policy in itself . The other element of the Porter hypothesis ...
... Environmental taxes and other policy instruments should be imposed gradually and predictably , to minimise adjustment costs and ensure that they are taken into account in investment plans . Environmental policy should seek to encourage ...
Contents
frameworks | 13 |
theory | 33 |
International competitiveness and carbon taxation | 71 |
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