Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy / / edited by Carlo Carraro and Gilbert E. Metcalf

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821779003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1-282-00479-4; 9786612004797; 0-226-09480-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 360 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
• Altri autori (Persone): CarraroCarlo; MetcalfGilbert E
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetti: Environmental policy - Economic aspects; Environmental protection
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry Is Not a Tax on Pollution: The Importance of Hitting the Target -- 2. Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does It Cost? -- 3. Green Taxes and Administrative Costs: The Case of Carbon Taxation -- 4. An Industry-Adjusted Index of State Environmental Compliance Costs -- 5. Costs of Air Quality Regulation -- 6. International Factor Movements, Environmental Policy, and Double Dividends -- 7. The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries -- 8. Environmental Information and Company Behavior -- 9. Environmental Policy and Firm Behavior: Abatement Investment and Location Decisions under Uncertainty and Irreversibility -- 10. The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental Research Joint Ventures -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Most people would agree that it makes sense to tax a company that pollutes in a way that directly reflects the amount of environmental and social damage it has done. Yet in practice, such taxes are fraught with difficulty and have far-reaching implications. A company facing a new ; tax may lay off workers, for example, exacerbating an unemployment problem. This volume focuses on such external issues and examines in detail the trade-offs involved in designing policies to deal with environmental problems. Reflecting the broad nature of the subject, the contributors include leading economists in the areas of public finance, industrial organization, and trade theory, as well as environmental economists. Integrating both theoretical and empirical methods, they examine environmental policy design as it relates to location decisions, compliance costs, administrative costs, effects on research and development, and international factor movements. Shedding light on an extraordinarily complex and important topic, this collection will be of interest to all those involved in designing effective environmental policy.