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Thirteen papers addressing current issues in international environmental economics. They analyze the relationship between trade liberalization and environmental policy; the impact of trade liberalization on environmental quality; investigate problems of commitment faced by regulating authorities; provide new insights into the Porter hypothesis; present empirical research related to international competitiveness and location of polluting plants; address international environmental agreements, with a special focus on income distribution and the political-economy dimension, tradable emission reductions, and the quantitative impact of trade liberalization and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol on carbon leakage.The papers in this volume show that even after ten years of intense research both on trade and the environment, and on transfrontier pollution and international environmental agreements, research in this area still produces new, relevant, and thought-provoking ideas and results.
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Environmental Economics and the International Economy Economy & Environment VOLUME 25 Scientific Advisory Board Scott Barrett, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, U.S.A. Klaus Conrad, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany David James, Ecoservices Pty. Ltd., Whale Beach, New South Wales, Australia Bengt J. Kriström, University of Umea, Sweden Raymond Prince, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Washington DC, U.S.A. Domenico Siniscalco, ENI-Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy / University of Torino, Italy The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. Environmental Economics and the International Economy Edited by Laura Marsiliani Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, U.S.A. and University of Durham, U.K. Michael Rauscher Rostock University, Germany and Cees Withagen Tilburg University and Free University, The Netherlands KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW eBook ISBN: Print ISBN: 0-306-48021-2 1-4020-0841-4 ©2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Print ©2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Kluwer Online at: and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://kluweronline.com http://ebooks.kluweronline.com CONTENTS Preface Introduction Greener Taxes, Freer Trade? Environmental Policy and Tariff Reduction in a Second-Best World Sjak Smulders and Partha Sen vii ix 1 North-South Trade and Pollution Migration: The Debate Revisited Meeta Keswani Mehra and Satya P. Das 21 Regulatory Competition, Transboundary Pollution and International Trade Isabelle Péchoux and Jérôme Pouyet 33 Modelling Commitment in a Multi-Stage Models of Location, Trade and Environment Alistair Ulph and Laura Valentini 55 International Competition and Investment in Abatement: Taxes versus Standards Talitha Feenstra, Aart de Zeeuw and Peter M. Kort 89 Environmental Policy Under Product Differentiation and Asymmetric Costs: Does Leapfrogging Occur and Is It Worth It? Jacqueline Rothfels 99 VI CONTENTS The Stringency of Environmental Regulation and the “Porter Hypothesis” Thomas Roediger-Schluga 123 Measuring the Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: A New Empirical Paradigm John A. List and Daniel L. Millimet 149 T