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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Trade Law and Environmental Issues in Central and East European Countries
Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
harmful tax competition in the field of environmental regulation; and (v) how international disputes can be resolved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666939
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How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy
List, John; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
In this Paper we explore to what extent secondary policy issues are influenced by electoral incentives. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue, such as the level of public spending, and a secondary policy issue, such as environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789133
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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We analyse how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791379
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Political Institutions, Environmental Policy and Growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We analyse the impact of micro-founded political institutions on environmental policy and economic growth. We model an overlapping-generations economy, where individuals differ in preferences over the environment (as well as in age). Labour taxation and capital taxation is used to finance a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791516
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Environmental Policy and Capital Movements: The Role of Government Commitment
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper explores the relationship between environmental protection and international capital movements, when tax policy is endogenous (through voting). A two-period general equilibrium model of a small open economy is specified to compare the effects of two different constitutions (commitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792126
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Strategic Environmental Policy and International Trade - The Role of Market Conduct
Ulph, Alistair Mitchell - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
markets when there is Bertrand competition. Strategic behaviour by governments takes the form of distortions to their … producers implies inefficient investment in R&D. I contrast the outcomes with Bertrand competition with those in Cournot … competition, which I analysed in an earlier paper (Ulph (1993a)). The main findings are: when only governments act strategically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792245
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Environmental Regulation and the Location of Polluting Industries
Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Does international tax competition in the environmental field lead to undesirably low levels of environmental … tax competition may lead to emission taxes that are either too low or too high. They may be so high that the investment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792418
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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468637
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Trade, Strategic Innovation and Strategic Environmental Policy - a General Analysis
Ulph, Alistair Mitchell; Ulph, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
about the competitive advantage their industries might obtain in a world of fierce trade competition. Some claim governments … competition where there are strategic gains to governments trying to manipulate markets through their environmental policies, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136590