Fiscal Policy and Environmental Welfare: Modelling Interjurisdictional Competition - Couverture rigide

Bayindir-Upmann, Thorsten

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1858987385 ISBN 13 : 9781858987385

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the provision of public goods and reduction in environmental degradation.

Regions or countries engage in competition for mobile capital in a world where production causes pollution and tax revenues are required to finance public goods. In Fiscal Policy and Environmental Welfare the author considers the efficiency consequences when governments act strategically and seek to manage trade, capital flows and emissions. Using formal models, which extend and modify existing literature, the author demonstrates that interjurisdictional competition typically leads to inefficiencies. He argues that although interjurisdictional competition may lead to the overprovision of public goods and to an inefficiently high environmental quality, often the opposite seems to occur.

This book will be welcomed by environmental economists, and those scholars interested in welfare and fiscal policy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann, Bielefeld University, Germany

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1858987385
• ISBN 13: 9781858987385
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible