Externe Effekte zwischen Wirtschaftssubjekten spielen in der Ökonomie eine herausragende Rolle. Solche durch wirtschaftliche Aktivität verursachten Externalitäten wirken auf das Wohlfahrtsniveau Dritter ein, ohne daß dafür eine marktliche Kompensation erfolgen würde. Die vorliegende...

We describe a model of international, multidimensional policy coordination where countries can enter into selective and separate agreements with different partners along differentpolicy dimensions. The model is used to examine the implications of negotation tie-in - the requirement that...

This paper addresses transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax problem, when part of the labor force is mobile across countries. The policy instruments include both commodity taxation and nonlinear income taxation. We show how the tax policy in a noncooperative...

Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...