Environmental Economics and the International Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Greener Taxes, Freer Trade?

   • Sjak Smulders, Partha Sen

   Pages 1-19

3. North-South Trade and Pollution Migration: The Debate Revisited

   • Meeta K. Mehra, Satya P. Das

   Pages 21-32

4. Regulatory Competition, Transboundary Pollution and International Trade

   • Isabelle Péchoux, Jérôme Pouyet

   Pages 33-54

5. Modelling Commitment in Multi-Stage Models of Location, Trade and Environment

   • Alistair Ulph, Laura Valentini

   Pages 55-88

6. International Competition and Investment in Abatement: Taxes Versus Standards

   • Talitha Feenstra, Aart De Zeeuw, Peter M. Kort

   Pages 89-98

7. Environmental Policy Under Product Differentiation and Asymmetric Costs

   • Jacqueline Rothfels

   Pages 99-122

8. The Stringency of Environmental Regulation and the ‘Porter Hypothesis’

   • Thomas Roediger-Schluga

   Pages 123-147

9. Measuring the Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: A New Empirical Paradigm

   • John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet

   Pages 149-176

10. The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Capital Flows: Some Methodological Considerations

    • Catherine Y. Co, Henk Folmer, Tim Jeppesen, John A. List, W. Warren Mchone

    Pages 177-184

11. Environmental Policy and Firms’ Decision-Making About Location Choice

    • Henk Van Der Veen, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Folmer

    Pages 185-201

12. The Efficiency, Equity and Politics of Emissions Permit Trading

    • Myrna Wooders, Ben Zissimos

    Pages 203-219

13. Should Emissions Reduction Units be Tradable?

    • Matti Liski

    Pages 221-238

14. The Kyoto Regime, Changing Patterns of International Trade and Carbon Leakage

    • Onno Kuik, Harmen Verbruggen

    Pages 239-257

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference “The International Dimension of Environmental Policy” held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000. We would like to thank those who made this conference possible: the European Science Foundation (ESF), which provided financial and organizational support; the European Commission EURESCO Programme; the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which sponsored the conference under the research project: “Environmental Policy, International Competitiveness and the Location Behavior of Firms”; and GLOBUS, Tilburg University. The European Science Foundation (ESF), the EURESCO Programme, NWO and GlOBUS cannot be held responsible for the contents and/or opinions expressed in this volume. Our gratitude also goes to the people who assisted us in editing this volume: the papers’ referees, the authors, our publisher Kluwer, and Ineke Lavrijssen and Evelyn Rogge for invaluable editorial help at different stages of this project. Laura Marsiliani W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, USA and Department of Economics and Finance, University of Durham, United Kingdom; Michael Rauscher Institute of Economics, Rostock University, Germany; Cees Withagen Department of Economics and CentER, Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Marsiliani, L., Rauscher, M. and Withagen, C] (eds.), [Environmental Economics and the International Economy], vii.

• Carbon Leakage
• environment
• environmental economics
• environmental policy
• income distribution
• international trade
• migration
• pollution

• Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, USA

  Laura Marsiliani

• University of Durham, UK

  Laura Marsiliani

• Rostock University, Germany

  Michael Rauscher

• Tilburg University and Free University, The Netherlands

  Cees Withagen

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