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Title Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy / edited by Carlo Carraro and Gilbert E. Metcalf
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 360 pages) : illustrations
Series A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Contents A tax on output of the polluting industry is not a tax on pollution: the importance of hitting the target / Don Fullerton, Inkee Hong, and Gilbert E. Metcalf; Comment / Gilbert H.A. van Hagen -- Neutralizing the adverse industry impacts of carbon dioxide abatement policies: what does it cost? / A. Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H. Goulder; Comment / Ruud A. de Mooij -- Green taxes and administrative costs: the case of carbon taxation / Sjak Smulders and Herman R.J. Vollebergh; Comment / Dallas Burtraw -- An industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs / Arik Levinson; Comment / Domenico Siniscalco -- Costs of air quality regulation / Randy A. Becker and J. Vernon Henderson; Comment / Aart de Zeeuw -- International factor movements, environmental policy, and double dividends / Michael Rauscher; Comment / David F. Bradford -- The environmental regime in developing countries / Raghbendra Jha and John Whalley; Comment / Edward B. Barbier -- Environmental information and company behavior / Domenico Siniscalco [and others]; Comment / Keven Hassett -- Environmental policy and firm behavior: abatement investment and location decisions under uncertainty and irreversibility / Anastasios Xepapadeas; Comment / Charles D. Kolstad -- The effects of environmental policy on the performance of environmental research joint ventures / Yannis Katsoulacos, Alistair Ulph, and David Ulph; Comment / Jerome Rothenberg
Summary 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 th
Analysis behavior, behavioral, distribution, distributional, environmentalism, environmental policy, economics, social damage, implications, unemployment, public finance, industrial organization, trade theory, location decisions, compliance costs, administrative cost, international factor movements, pollution, taxation, carbon, company behaviors, green taxes, research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
Environmental protection.
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
environmental protection.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
Environmental protection
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Carraro, Carlo.
Metcalf, Gilbert E.
LC no. 00041799
ISBN 9780226094809
0226094804
1282004794
9781282004795
9786612004797
6612004797