This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the HEckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...

Auf der Basis von Daten der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 1993 wird die Einkommenselastizität der Nachfrage nach Gesundheitsleistungen geschätzt. Dabei werden für privat und gesetzlich Krankenversicherte getrennte Schätzungen durchgeführt. Es zeigt sich, dass die...

Currently, the world petroleum market is facing attempts by petroleum exporting countries to extend their influence further downstream. The process of vertical integration is based on natural gas which accrues as a by-product of crude oil recovery. Gas can be used for downstream production, for...

In a dynamic optimisation model the profit maximising behaviour of a monopolist facing lagged adjustments of demand is investigated. It is shown that the long run equilibrium price differs from the static Cournot price. The monopolist sacrifices some of the long run profits in order to exploit...

The paper looks at a model of directed technical change in an environmental-economics context. Firms can do conventional or 'green' R&D or they can abate emissions at the end of pipe. The paper has two main foci. On the one hand, it investigates the impact of environmental regulation on the...

The paper investigates the spatial patterns of industrial location and environmental pollution in a new-economic-geography model. Factors of production and their owners are mobile, but factor owners are not required to live in the region in which their factors are employed. Under laisser-faire,...

Social norms and intrinsic motivations lead to voluntary environmentally responsible behaviour even in the absence of environmental policy. The paper shows that the introduction of environmental policy may lead to a reduction of voluntary abatement and sometimes may increase emissions and...

The paper shows that interjurisdictional competition for mobile factors of production forces the government to raise the efficiency of the public sector and, thus, helps to tame Leviathan governments. However, this result is derived under some restrictive assumptions concerning the kind of tax...