Environmental Policy, International Agreements, and International Trade [Hardcover]

This timely collection explores the highly topical area of international trade agreements and environmental policy. The individual papers focus on two main themes: how to design policies and institutions for the solution of trans-frontier environmental problems; and issues of industrial location and trade. They represent the latest state of research from contributors who are key players in this burgeoning field.

1. Environmental Policy, International Agreements and International Trade,A. Ulph
A: Design of International Environmental Agreements
2. Policy Coordination for Sustainability: Commitments, Transfers and Linked Negotiations,C. Carraro and D. Siniscalco
3. Environmental Coalitions with Heterogeneous Countries: Burden-Sharing and Carbon Leakage,M. Botteon and C. Carraro
4. A Core-Theoretic Solution for the Design of Co-operative Agreements on Transfrontier Pollution,P. Chander and H. Tulkens
5. International Agreements on Acid Rains in Northern Europe: a Discrete-Time Iterative Process,M. Germain, P. Toint, and H. Tulkens
B: How to Design Policies to Reduce Carbon Leakage
6. Efficient Climate Policy in the Presence of Free Raiders,M. Hoel
7. Efficient Incomplete International Climate Agreements,R. Golombek, C. Hagem, and M. Hoel
C: Environmental Policy and Plant Location
8. Carbon Taxes and Industrial Location: Evidence from the Multinationals Literature,Z. Wang and A. Winters
9. Plant Location and Strategic Environmental Policy with Inter-Sectoral Linkages,A. Ulph and L. Valentini
10. Economic Policy and the Manufacturing Base---Hysteresis in Location,A. Venables
11. Environmental Regulations and Manufacturing Employment---Microeconometric Study of Norwegian Data,R. Golombek and A. Raknerud
D: International Trade and Strategic Environmental Policyl³a