Trade, Innovation, EnvironmentCarlo Carraro Springer Science & Business Media, 1994 M08 31 - 407 pages The research projects at Fondazione Mattei have for some time now been dealing with the international dimension of environmental policy. Indeed, most environ mental phenomena have international implications, which stem from a number of factors: physical ones, such as the transnational or global consequences of pollution and resource conservation; technological factors, such as technological cooperation and diffusion; and economic factors, such as trad~, plant localiza tion and migrations. Even in the absence of transnational pollution, therefore, the environmental issues involve substantial interdependence among countries. This volume, edited by Carlo Carraro, presents some of the research which we carried out in international environmental policy, focusing on the relationship between trade, innovation and the environment. The papers in part one discuss the impact of international trade and institu tions on environmental resources. Those in part two deal with the importance of innovation when attempting to solve the major environmental problems. The papers in part three, finally, focus on specific policy issues stressing the impor tance of institutions and property rights. The whole set of contributions can be seen as progress in environmental economics. The different chapters highlight the close relationship between envi ronmental issues and economic development and they merge the literature on the environment with the literature on innovation, economic growth, trade, plant localization, institutions, etc. |
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... show that there is much to be gained from merging environmental economics with other fields of our discipline and that the issue of policy coordination goes far beyond its obvious applications . For this reason they also outline an ...
... show that there is much to be gained from merging environmental economics with other fields of our discipline and that the issue of policy coordination goes far beyond its obvious applications . For this reason they also outline an ...
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... Using a version of this model calibrated on data from the world fertiliser , Ulph shows that the impacts of environmental policy ( in terms of welfare and carbon leakages ) can be substantially greater 4 CARLO CARRARO.
... Using a version of this model calibrated on data from the world fertiliser , Ulph shows that the impacts of environmental policy ( in terms of welfare and carbon leakages ) can be substantially greater 4 CARLO CARRARO.
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... shows that the granting of tax rebates to producers may be counterproductive , and that having a domestic industry which does not locate plants abroad in response to environmental policy ( because it does not pay to do so ) may not be ...
... shows that the granting of tax rebates to producers may be counterproductive , and that having a domestic industry which does not locate plants abroad in response to environmental policy ( because it does not pay to do so ) may not be ...
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... shows that under international policy coordination less renewable resources are used in production and environmental quality is better than in the non - cooperative outcome . However , the main objective of this paper is to demonstrate ...
... shows that under international policy coordination less renewable resources are used in production and environmental quality is better than in the non - cooperative outcome . However , the main objective of this paper is to demonstrate ...
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... shows that if there are fixed costs associated with abatement programmes , or if there are " reinforcement effects " , then under certain conditions coalitions in excess of the minimum critical size are not vulnerable to " free riding ...
... shows that if there are fixed costs associated with abatement programmes , or if there are " reinforcement effects " , then under certain conditions coalitions in excess of the minimum critical size are not vulnerable to " free riding ...
Contents
11 Property Rights and the Dynamics of Renewable Resources in NorthSouth Trade | 15 |
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Environmental Concerns and Protectionism | 75 |
14 Foreign Trade and Renewable Resources | 109 |
15 Environmental Policy Plant Location and Government Protection | 123 |
2 Models of Innovation and Growth | 165 |
21 Should Environmental Innovation Policy Be Internationally Coordinated? | 167 |
22 Strategic Innovation and Strategic Environmental Policy | 205 |
24 Endogenous Growth Environment and RD | 241 |
25 Sustainable Growth and Renewable Recources in the Global Economy | 259 |
3 Policy Issues | 281 |
31 Laissez Faire or Nationalization and Collective Control of the Global Commons | 283 |
32 Formation of International Environmental Agreements | 301 |
33 The Design of a Carbon Tax in an Incomplete International Climate Agreement | 323 |
The Role of Environmental Damage Estimation | 363 |
Some Lessons from the Recent Experience on Greenhouse Effect | 385 |
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