Economics Of Environmental Policy In Oligopolistic Markets

Author : Mahelet G. Fikru,Matt Insall
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Environmental impact charges
ISBN : 163463165X

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Economics of Environmental Policy in Oligopolistic Markets by Mahelet G. Fikru,Matt Insall Pdf

With the rising public and political concern about greener production, there is unrelenting pressure on individual companies to mitigate and abate pollution and adopt cleaner technologies. Governments adopt several types of environmental policies and regulations that are aimed at protecting the environment and encouraging efficient use of natural resources. Instruments such as carbon tax, emission quota and abatement subsidy are being proposed and implemented in several countries. Such policies affect firms' strategic decision-making such as creating joint ventures, product differentiation, R&D, expansion and outsourcing. This book examines the relationship between firms' strategic decision making, environmental policies and its resulting effect on society. Each chapter builds a theoretical model in which the market structure is imperfect competition.

Author : Carlo Carraro,Y. Katsoulacos,A. Xepapadeas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401586429

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Environmental Policy and Market Structure by Carlo Carraro,Y. Katsoulacos,A. Xepapadeas Pdf

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.

Author : J. Loomis,Gloria Helfand
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780306480232

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Environmental Policy Analysis for Decision Making by J. Loomis,Gloria Helfand Pdf

1. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSIS: WHAT AND WHY? Why environmental policy analysis? Environmental issues are growing in visibility in local, national, and world arenas, as a myriad of human activities leads to increased impacts on the natural world. Issues such as climate change, endangered species, wilderness protection, and energy use are regularly on the front pages of newspapers. Governments at all levels are struggling with how to address these issues. Environmental policy analysis is intended to present the environmental and social impacts of policies, in the hope that better decisions will result when people have better information on which to base those decisions. Conducting environmental policy analysis requires people who understand what it is and how to do it. Interpreting it also requires those skills. We hope that this book will increase the abilities, both of analysts and of decision-makers, to understand and interpret the impacts of environmental policies. Policy analysis books almost invariably begin by pointing out that policy analysis can take many forms. This book is no different. As you will see in Chapter 1, we consider policy analysis to be information provided for the policy process. That information can take many forms, from sophisticated empirical analysis to general theoretical results, from summary statistics to game theoretic strategies.

Author : Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610916073

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Markets and the Environment, Second Edition by Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead Pdf

"A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. ... Now thoroughly revised with updated information on current environmental policy and real-world examples of market-based instruments .... The authors provide a concise yet thorough introduction to the economic theory of environmental policy and natural resource management. They begin with an overview of environmental economics before exploring topics including cost-benefit analysis, market failures and successes, and economic growth and sustainability. Readers of the first edition will notice new analysis of cost estimation as well as specific market instruments, including municipal water pricing and waste disposal. Particular attention is paid to behavioral economics and cap-and-trade programs for carbon."--Publisher's web site.

Author : Bouwe R. Dijkstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024331287

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The Political Economy of Environmental Policy by Bouwe R. Dijkstra Pdf

This work asks why market instruments have not been used to their full potential in environmental policy. It uses a public choice perspective to analyse the political economy of environmental policy, emphasising the role of interest groups which have blocked the introduction of market instruments.

Author : William J. Baumol,Wallace E. Oates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717152

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The Theory of Environmental Policy by William J. Baumol,Wallace E. Oates Pdf

In this book, Professors Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy. They present a formal, theoretical treatment of those factors influencing the quality of life. By covering both the theory of externalities and its application to environmental policy, the authors have retained the basic structure and organization of the first edition, which has become a standard reference in the field. In this edition, however, they have updated their analysis to incorporate recent research in environmental economics.

Author : Y. S. Katsoulacos,Anastasios Xepapadeas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UVA:X002492957

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Environmental Policy Under Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Structure by Y. S. Katsoulacos,Anastasios Xepapadeas Pdf

Author : Ted Gayer,John K. Horowitz
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933019376

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Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation by Ted Gayer,John K. Horowitz Pdf

Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation reviews the economics literature of market-based environmental regulations and design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. It begins by reviewing the economics literature on the theory of market-based environmental regulations. It then goes on to cover design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation also discusses the U.S. experience with a number of regulatory approaches that are commonly characterized as market-based and describes the mix of market and non-market instruments that characterize these policies. Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation will be of interest to all researchers and practitioners in the field of environmental regulation.

Author : Emmanuel Petrakis,Eftichios Sofokles Sartzetakis,Anastasios Xepapadeas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025111803

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Environmental Regulation and Market Power by Emmanuel Petrakis,Eftichios Sofokles Sartzetakis,Anastasios Xepapadeas Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Aronsson,Kenneth Backlund,Karl-Gustaf Löfgren
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781955123

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Environmental Policy, Sustainability and Welfare by Thomas Aronsson,Kenneth Backlund,Karl-Gustaf Löfgren Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses important relationships between economics and environmental policy, highlighting in particular the role of taxation. It also connects environmental policy to social accounting by describing how measures of welfare and sustainable development depend on whether policies successfully internalize market failures.

Author : Thomas H. Tietenberg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economic development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006020791

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Economics and Environmental Policy by Thomas H. Tietenberg Pdf

Over the last two decades economic analysis has begun to offer increasingly sophisticated and useful insights about environmental problems. Recent innovations have enlarged the range of economic policy instruments and transformed the roles of the various implementation and enforcement institutions.

Author : Ross McKitrick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442610705

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Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy by Ross McKitrick Pdf

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough explanation of modern environmental economics, applying this exposition to contemporary issues and policy analysis. Opening with a discussion of contemporary pollution problems, institutional players and the main policy instruments at our disposal, Ross McKitrick develops core theories of environmental valuation and optimal control of pollution. Chapters that follow cover issues like tradable permits, regulatory standards, emission taxes, and polluter liability as well as advanced topics like trade and the environment, sustainability, risk, inequality, and self-monitoring. Throughout, McKitrick uses clear, intuitive, and coherent analytical tools, so that students, academics, and practitioners can develop their policy analysis skills while comprehending the debates and challenges at the frontier of this exciting and rapidly-developing field.

Author : William J. Baumol,Wallace E. Oates,Sue Anne Batey Blackman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041071478

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Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life by William J. Baumol,Wallace E. Oates,Sue Anne Batey Blackman Pdf

Analysing the interrelationship between economic activity and the quality of life part I of this book provides an empirical evaluation which ranges from what has happened to entities such as Lake Erie to a critical examination of the pessimism of the Club of Rome. Part II deals with the impact of environmental issues on modern urban life, on land use, and on international transmissions. Part III presents an analysis of policy instruments available for achieving an appropriate quality of the environment.

Author : A. Myrick Freeman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023206522

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The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy by A. Myrick Freeman Pdf

These papers cover such topics as: the effects of environmental and resources policies on income distribution; the incorporation of distribution effects into environmental policy analysis; the role of economic incentives in environmental policy; the economic valuation of environment changes; and the consideration of risk and uncertainty in economic valuation and policy making. The book also includes papers on the ethical basis of environmental economics and the economic approach to environmental policy.

Author : Daniel W. Bromley,Jouni Paavola
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470692929

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Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy by Daniel W. Bromley,Jouni Paavola Pdf

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.