Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Carlo Carraro Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0792330331
Описание
This book covers some of the most relevant issues in the new environmental economics. Its main emphasis is on the international dimension of environmental phenomena, which implies the necessity of designing properly coordinated economic/environmental policies. The issue of policy coordination is analysed both in the case where environmental externalities arise because of cross-country and global pollution flows, and in the case where trade and competitiveness effects induced by environmental regulation affect countries' relative economic performance. The context in which these issues are analysed relies on recent developments of game theory, industrial economics, international trade where imperfect competition and governments' strategic interactions are accounted for. Recognizing that traditional environmental policy tools are not sufficient to regulate the present environment--economy interactions leads to appraise the effects of more sophisticated policy mixes. In particular,...
