Description |
1 online resource (ix, 360 pages) : illustrations |
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A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Contents |
A tax on output of the polluting industry is not a tax on pollution: the importance of hitting the target / Don Fullerton, Inkee Hong, and Gilbert E. Metcalf; Comment / Gilbert H.A. van Hagen -- Neutralizing the adverse industry impacts of carbon dioxide abatement policies: what does it cost? / A. Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence H. Goulder; Comment / Ruud A. de Mooij -- Green taxes and administrative costs: the case of carbon taxation / Sjak Smulders and Herman R.J. Vollebergh; Comment / Dallas Burtraw -- An industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs / Arik Levinson; Comment / Domenico Siniscalco -- Costs of air quality regulation / Randy A. Becker and J. Vernon Henderson; Comment / Aart de Zeeuw -- International factor movements, environmental policy, and double dividends / Michael Rauscher; Comment / David F. Bradford -- The environmental regime in developing countries / Raghbendra Jha and John Whalley; Comment / Edward B. Barbier -- Environmental information and company behavior / Domenico Siniscalco [and others]; Comment / Keven Hassett -- Environmental policy and firm behavior: abatement investment and location decisions under uncertainty and irreversibility / Anastasios Xepapadeas; Comment / Charles D. Kolstad -- The effects of environmental policy on the performance of environmental research joint ventures / Yannis Katsoulacos, Alistair Ulph, and David Ulph; Comment / Jerome Rothenberg |
Summary |
Most people would agree that it makes sense to tax a company that pollutes in a way that directly reflects the amount of environmental and social damage it has done. Yet in practice, such taxes are fraught with difficulty and have far-reaching implications. A company facing a new tax may lay off workers, for example, exacerbating an unemployment problem. This volume focuses on such external issues and examines in detail the trade-offs involved in designing policies to deal with environmental problems. Reflecting the broad nature of the subject, the contributors include leading economists in th |
Analysis |
behavior, behavioral, distribution, distributional, environmentalism, environmental policy, economics, social damage, implications, unemployment, public finance, industrial organization, trade theory, location decisions, compliance costs, administrative cost, international factor movements, pollution, taxation, carbon, company behaviors, green taxes, research |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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Environmental protection.
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Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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environmental protection.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
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Environmental protection
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Carraro, Carlo.
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Metcalf, Gilbert E.
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LC no. |
00041799 |
ISBN |
9780226094809 |
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0226094804 |
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1282004794 |
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9781282004795 |
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9786612004797 |
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6612004797 |
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