Fiscal Policy and Environmental Welfare: Modelling Interjurisdictional Competition

by Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781858987385
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	06/28/1998
Series:	New Horizons in Environmental Economics series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann, Bielefeld University, Germany

Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Different Forms of Interjurisdictional Competition 3. Strategic Environmental Policy 4. Tax Competition, Provision of Public Goods, and Environmental Policy 5. Conclusion References Index

Editorial Reviews

Examines the link between environmental, trade, and industrial policies within an interregional setting. Considers the efficiency consequences when governments act strategically and seek to manage trade, capital flows, and emissions, demonstrating that interjurisdictional competition typically leads to inefficiencies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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