Environmental policy, international agreements, and international trade / edited by Alistair Ulph.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ulph, Alistair.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Commercial treaties.

Physical Description:

x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This timely collection explores the highly topical area of international trade agreements and environmental policy. The individual papers focus on two main themes: how to design policies and institutions for the solution of trans-frontier environmental problems; and issues of industrial location and trade. They represent the latest state of research from contributors who are key players in this burgeoning field.

Contents:

Transfers, commitments, and issue linkage in international environmental negotiations / Carlo Carraro and Domenico Siniscalco

Environmental coalitions with heterogeneous countries: burden-sharing and carbon leakage / Michele Botteon and Carlo Carraro

Strategically stable cost sharing in an economic-ecological negotiation process / Parkash Chander and Henry Tulkens

A core-theoretic solution for the design of cooperative agreements on transfrontier pollution / Parkash Chander and Henry Tulkens

Efficient climate policy in the presence of free-riders / Michael Hoel

Efficient incomplete international climate agreements / Rolf Golombek, Cathrine Hagem, and Michael Hoel

Carbon taxes and industrial location: evidence from the multinationals literature / Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters

Plant location and strategic environmental policy with intersectoral linkages / Alistair Ulph and Laura Valentini

Economic policy and the manufacturing base: hysteresis in location / Anthony F. Venables

Environmental regulations and manufacturing employment: a study on Norwegian micro data / Rolf Golombek and Arvid Raknerud

Under different international agreements: can a small nation gain from introducing a carbon tax early? / Diderik Lund

Environmental policy and international trade when governments and producers act strategically / Alistair Ulph

Racing to introduce an environmentally friendly product / David Ulph

Trade, strategic innovation, and strategic environmental policy: a general analysis / Alistair Ulph and David Ulph

Strategic environmental policy, international trade, and the single european market / Alistair Ulph.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-323) and index.

ISBN:

0198293291

OCLC:

46641966