Environmental Policy and Market Structure

✍ Scribed by Yiannis Katsoulacos, Anastasios Xepapadeas (auth.), Carlo Carraro, Yiannis Katsoulacos, Anastasios Xepapadeas (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Economics, Energy and Environment 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the central tenets of this book is that governmental policies must be designed to take into account market characteristics and environmental phenomena - simultaneously. This volume contains a new research effort of the `Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei' and explores the theoretical underpinnings of environmental policy in a sub-optimal world.
Topics considered link economic issues (oligopolistic market structures, firm heterogeneity, and the strategic behavior of governments) to environmental issues (emission abatements, cleaner technologies, and environmental taxation).
The articles in this volume were chosen to achieve a balance between breadth and depth and were written by leading experts in the field. In short, this book is rich in policy implications and raises new issues and questions for future research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Emission taxes and market structure....Pages 3-22
Environmental taxation, market share, and profits in oligopoly....Pages 23-44
Naive use of environmental instruments....Pages 45-64
Optimal environmental policy for oligopolistic industries under intra-industry trade....Pages 65-83
Choosing emission taxes under international price competition....Pages 85-98
Strategic environmental policy and international trade — the role of market conduct....Pages 99-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Innovation under the threat of stricter environmental standards....Pages 131-141
Environmental innovation, spillovers and optimal policy rules....Pages 143-150
Environmental policy and the choice of production technology....Pages 151-180
Trade, strategic innovation and strategic environmental policy — a general analysis....Pages 181-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-209

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Environmental Management