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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... income taxes is equivalent to lump - sum recycling to wage earners . A similarly complicated methodology is employed in the DRI EU study with 35 per cent recycled through reductions in personal income taxes and employee social security ...
... income would be 7 per cent . Non - OECD countries would suffer from the unfavourable effects on the OECD economies , despite the displacement : non - OECD income would be reduced by 3 per cent by 2015 ( see Table 6.1 , third column ) ...
... income in country i , Pi is a vector of prices for private goods in country i , Z is a vector of public bads ... income , decreases ( or at least does not increase ) with increasing prices , and decreases with increasing supplies of ...
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frameworks | 13 |
theory | 33 |
International competitiveness and carbon taxation | 71 |
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