Environmental Policy and Market Structure

Environmental Policy and Market Structure
Author: Carlo Carraro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 940158642X

One of the central tenets of this book is that governmental policies must be designed to take into account market characteristics and environmental phenomena - simultaneously. This volume contains a new research effort of the `Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei' and explores the theoretical underpinnings of environmental policy in a sub-optimal world. Topics considered link economic issues (oligopolistic market structures, firm heterogeneity, and the strategic behavior of governments) to environmental issues (emission abatements, cleaner technologies, and environmental taxation). The articles in this volume were chosen to achieve a balance between breadth and depth and were written by leading experts in the field. In short, this book is rich in policy implications and raises new issues and questions for future research.

Environmental Policy when Market Structure and Plant Locations are Endogenous

Environmental Policy when Market Structure and Plant Locations are Endogenous
Author: James R. Markusen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1991
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN:

A two-region, two-firm model is developed in which firms choose the number and the regional locations of their plants. Both firms pollute and, in this context, market structure is endogenous to environmental policy. There are increasing returns at the plant level, imperfect competition between the "home" and the "foreign" firm, and transport costs between the two markets. These features imply that at critical levels of environmental policy variables, small policy changes cause large discrete jumps in a region's pollution and welfare as a firm closes or opens a plant, or shifts production for the foreign region from/to the home-region plant to/from a foreign branch plant. The implications for optimal environmental policy differ significantly from those suggested by traditional Pigouvian marginal analysis

The Theory of Environmental Policy

The Theory of Environmental Policy
Author: William J. Baumol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1988-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521311120

An analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy and the factors influencing the quality of life. Recent research in environmental economics is incorporated as well as economic incentives for pollution control.

Environmental Regulation and Market Power

Environmental Regulation and Market Power
Author: Emmanuel Petrakis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. This text uses research in order to appraise their efficiency in varying market conditions.

Regulating the Polluters

Regulating the Polluters
Author: Alexander Ovodenko
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190677724

Why have national governments created different international rules and institutions to address global environmental issues? Alexander Ovodenko argues that this variation can be explained by looking to a dynamic that has been thus far downplayed by the literature on global environmental governance: the structures of industries regulated by environmental rules. Regulating the Polluters inverts the literature on regulatory capture and collective action by presenting empirical evidence of the irony of market power in global environmental politics.

Markets, the State, and the Environment

Markets, the State, and the Environment
Author: Robyn Eckersley
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780732930967

A reference book consisting mainly of revised versions of selected papers presented at a workshop on 'Bureaucracy, Markets and the Environment', held in October 1992 at Monash University. Critically examines the range of tools for environmental protection available to governments. Provides a set of principles and recommendations to guide environmental policy makers and various contributors assess the various instruments for environmental protection against a range of criteria. Considers developments in environmental management in Europe, US and Australia. Includes an index. The author has also written 'Environmentalism and Political Theory'.