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The objective of this paper is to quantify the economic effects of introducing carbon-reduction policies in the European Union (EU). For this purpose, we use linked applied general equilibrium (AGE) models for 11 EU member countries. This method enables us to measure the change in...

Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties....

The management of solid waste has become an urgent problem. Product responsibility means that a product will accompany its producer from cradle to grave; prevention, recycling and disposal of waste are part of a theory of the firm which we develop under solid residual management. We assume that...

The focus of this survey chapter is on the importance of general equilibrium interactions in assessing efficiency costs of environmental policies. Those interactions are relevant to the impacts of a wide range of government policies to control air pollution, deforestation or water quality. These...

A standard critique of the strategic, two-stage industrial and trade policy models is that trade policy recommendations depend on the nature of competition between firms. Brander and Spencer (1985) have shown that under quantity competition in an international market governments opt for export...