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Environmental Policy, International Trade and Factor Markets

โœ Scribed by C.C. Chao, E. Siu-Hung Yu


Publisher
Elsevier, Academic Press
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Leaves
269
Series
Contributions to Economic Analysis 267
Category
Library

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โœฆ Synopsis


This book examines the intricate relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. Trade liberalization via tariff reduction and market reforms has contributed significantly to the growth of the world economy. Nonetheless, one may wonder if free trade can continue to be a key factor sustaining economic growth and improving environmental quality. Under free trade, capital-abundant developed countries that produce capital intensive goods tend to emit more pollutants. This is the thrust of the so-called factor-endowment hypothesis of pollution. However, the costs of abating pollution are mounting in environmentally conscious nations due to the adoption of tougher environmental standards. The increased production costs have prompted firms in the developed nations to relocate to developing countries (the pollution haven hypothesis). Households in developing economies are mainly concerned with meeting basic needs and thus attach greater importance to issues about jobs and income. This book contributes toward understanding these issues. The impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare are examined, the design and coordination of optimal trade, investment and environmental policies are analyzed, and their policy implications, such as aid-nature swap and backward incidence of pollution control, are provided. Finally, optimal trade and pollution policies are investigated and compared under certain and uncertain situations.

โœฆ Table of Contents


ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, INTERNATIONAL TRADE,AND FACTOR MARKETS......Page 1
copyright......Page 4
front matter......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
1. General-Equilibrium Models of an Economy......Page 23
2. Jobs vs. Environmental Preservation......Page 49
3. Jobs and Environmental Taxes......Page 71
4. Environmental Standard, Tax Competition and Capital Flows......Page 83
5. Optimal Pollution and Foreign-Investment Taxes......Page 103
6. Environmental Taxes and Trade-Related Investment Measures......Page 125
7. Environmental Regulations on Trade and Investment Policies......Page 151
8. International Capital Mobility and Pollution Tax Coordination......Page 171
9. Tied Aid, Environmental Clean-up, and Welfare......Page 187
10. Backward Incidence of Pollution Control......Page 203
11. Air Pollution and Optimal Interventions......Page 213
12. Pollution-Induced Uncertainty and Optimal Policies......Page 223
13. Suggestions for Future Research......Page 247
REFERENCES......Page 253
Index......Page 263
Author Index......Page 267


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