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Perseverance of Perverse Subsidies and their Impact on Trade and the Environment

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented. The economic and environmental impacts of producer subsidies on international...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A.A.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

The potential relationship between domestic environmental regulation and internationalcompetitiveness has evoked various speculations. The common neoclassical train of thought is thatstrict environmental regulation is detrimental to the competitiveness of industry, and that itinduces phenomena...

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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies

Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means forachieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on successconditions of policies isscarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify thefactors that determine the...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Environmental Regulation and International Trade

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation. Stringent environmental regulation may impair the export competitiveness of ‘dirty’ domestic industries, and as a result, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where...

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Ecological Economics: Themes, Approaches, and Differences with Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This provides a short overview of the main themes of ecological economics (EE). It isargued that EE provides a platform that fosters multidisciplinary environmental research bybringing together the core contributing disciplines economics and ecology. In addition, EE isregarded as a pluralistic...

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Environmental Responsibility and Policy in a Two Country Dynamic Input-Output Model

Hoekstra, Rutger; Janssen, Marco A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implication for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries...

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Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU Imports from ACP Countries

Manchin, Miriam - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Despite the long relationship between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)countries aimed at encouraging … economy. This paper examines the non-leastdeveloped ACP countries preferential trade with the EU. The objective is to explain … thedeterminants of preferential exports of ACP countries towards the EU and to assess the impact ofpreferences on trade volumes. We …

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