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Environmental regulation and international trade

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Withagen, Cees - 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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Environmental regulation and competitiveness

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Withagen, Cees - 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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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 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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Does a tougher environmental policy raise unemployment? : Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with rationing of labour supply

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 1993

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The regulation of input related externalities with heterogenous firms

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010

This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...

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Advances in environmental economics : analysis and modelling

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

This paper gives a concise overview of environmental-economicanalysis. Important issues and modern developments in the field aresurveyed in a systematic way. Next, the concept of sustainabledevelopment is discussed, as it has dominated environmental economicsfor almost a decade now. In addition,...

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Spatial dimensions of environmental policies for trans-boundary externalities : a spatial price equilibrium approach

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

This paper presents a framework for analysing spatial aspects of environmental policies in the regulation of trans-boundary externalities. A spatial price equilibrium model for two regions is constructed, where interactions between these regions can occur via trade and transport, via mutual...

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Models of individual behavior and implications for environmental policy

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; … - 1998

, formulated in terms of maximization of utility ingeneral, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy … behavioural assumptions have been most significant for the development ofeconomic valuation theory and environmental policy theory …. The focus here will be onenvironmental policy theory. …

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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 - 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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