Domenico Siniscalco

Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment.

Preface D. Siniscalco. Introduction C. Carraro, D. Siniscalco. Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Environmental Fiscal Reforms. Environmental Taxation and the Double-Dividend: the Role of Factor Substitution and Capital Mobility A.L. Bovenberg. Shifting Taxes from Value Added to Material Inputs R. Repetto. Environmental Taxation and Employment in a Multi-Sector General Equilibrium Model C. Carraro, A. Soubeyran. Environmental Policy, Tax Incidence and the Cost of Public Funds J. Ligthart, F. van der Ploeg. Environmental Policy, Worker Moral Hazard and the Double Dividend Issue J. Starnd. Part II: Empirical Assessments of Environmental Fiscal Reforms. Labour Market Institutions and the Double Dividend Hypothesis: An Application of the WARM Model G. Brunello. The Double Dividend Hypothesis, Environmental Benefits and the International Coordination of Recycling Strategies S. Proost, D. van Regemorter. Double Dividend Analysis: First Results of a General Equilibrium Model (GEM-E3) Linking the EU-12 Countries P. Capros, et al. Employment, Wage Formation and Pricing in the European Union: Empirical Modelling of Environmental Tax Reform T. Barker, B. Gardiner.

The European Carbon Tax: An Economic Assessment

1: Introduction C. Carraro, D. Siniscalco. 2: General Issues and Evidence. 2.1. Global Effects of the European Carbon Tax G. Nicoletti, J. Oliveira-Martins. 2.2. Distributional Effects of a European Carbon Tax S. Smith. 2.3. Carbon Taxes and Energy Markets A. Ingham, A. Ulph, D. Ulph. 3: Country Studies. 3.1 Carbon Taxation in Germany: Approaches and Prospective Effects H. Welsch. 3.2. The Use of Economic Models for Analyzing Environmental Problems: the Case of the Greenhouse Effect for France E. Beaumais, P. Zagame. 3.3. The EC Carbon Tax and Energy Demand in the United Kingdom D. Hodgson. 3.4. The Welfare Effect of a Carbon Tax for China R. Clarke. 3.5. Environmental and Economic Effects of the European Tax: the Italian Case A. Lanza, G. Sammarco. 3.6. Airborne Toxic (Big 5) and GHG CO2 Emissions: Italy 1991-1995 P.L. Fano. 4: The Policy Debate. 4.1. Stabilizing CO2 Emissions in Europe: Individual Stabilization versus Harmonization of Carbon Taxes M. Hoel. 4.2. The Carbon Tax: Economic and Policy Issues T. Barker. 4.3. Is the European Carbon Tax Really Effective? M. Botteon, C. Carraro.

Food Production, Population Growth, and Environmental Security

There are two broad criteria by which one can judge humanitys success in feeding itself: (i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii) the extent to which global food production is sustainable. Even though the two are related, they have usually been discussed separately in popular writings. This has had unfortunate consequences. Writings on (ii) have often encouraged readers to adopt an all-or-nothing position (viz. the future will be either rosy or catastrophic), and this has drawn attention away from the economic misery that is endemic in large parts of the world today. On the other hand, writings on (i) have frequently yielded no more than the catechism that the nearly 1 billion people in poor countries who go to bed hungry each night do so because they are extremely poor. In short, if (ii) has focused on aggregate food production and its prospects for the future, (i) in contrast has isolated food-distribution failure as a cause of world hunger. In this article we will adopt the view that (i) and (ii) should not be studied separately, that their link can be understood if attention is paid to the dynamic interactions between ecological and economic systems operating primarily at the geographically localised level.

Science vs. Profit in Research: Lessons from the Human Genome Project

This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market allocation mechanisms do coexist and should coexist in order to ensure socially desirable achievements. A game-theoretic model makes it possible to demonstrate the above results and to characterise some features of an optimal research policy.

Production and Transmission of Knowledge: Institutions and Economic Incentives. An Introduction

Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production, the transfer and the difffusion of knowledge? This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge at the forefront, as a key economic issue.

The Response of Companies to Information-Based Environmental Policies

This paper investigates the companies behavioural response to information-based environmental policies. We perform a panel analysis for 39 big companies in 16 countries, in 3 polluting industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power generation) over a 5- year period (1993-1997) to check whether environmental policies (command and control and energy taxation) and the adoption of information-based environmental strategies affect the companies economic and environmental performance. The results confirm the positive role of self-regulated environmental audits and compensation programmes on corpo rate environmental performance.