Presenting a Wealth of Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Analyses, Intended as a Source of Guidance for Policy Implementation and Research - Environmental Taxation In Practice.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c44556) has announced the addition of Environmental Taxation in Practice to their offering.

Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important. Focusing on environmental taxation in practice, this volume collects key contributions on a wide range of topics, including comparisons of environmental taxation schemes in different countries, political economy issues and key aspects of concrete implementation. It presents a wealth of ex-ante and ex-post analyses, intended as a source of guidance for policy implementation and research. The volume features a full-length introduction locating the literature on environmental taxation in practice in a wider context of theoretical and applied issues.

About the Author/Editor:

Adrian Muller is a post-doctoral researcher at the environmental economics unit at Gothenburg University, Sweden, partly funded by the Climate Policy Research Program (Clipore) of the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra. He currently works on theoretical and empirical analysis of policy instruments for environmental and resource management, with a focus on climate policy. He also collaborates with the Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Zurich.

Thomas Sterner is Professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He directs the Environmental Economics Unit, EEU, which specializes in the economics of the environment and natural resource management in both OECD countries and in Developing countries. See http://www.handels.gu.se/econ/EEU/ for further information. He is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Environmental Economics in Gothenburg. His other board memberships also include the Board of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) of which he is the president elect for 2007-8. He is also a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. His academic publications number around 60 major published articles and books (including over 30 journal articles).

Content Outline:

Series preface

Introduction

Part I Over view and Comparison of Different Taxes: Thomas Sterner and Gunnar KEhlin (2003)

Environmental taxes in Europe; Randall A. Bluffstone (2003)

Environmental taxes in developing and transition economies.

Part II Institutional Aspects and Political Economy of Implementation: Henrik Hammar, Easa LEfgren and Thomas Sterner (2004)

Political economy obstacles to fuel taxation

Dawn Erlandson (1994) The Btu tax experience: what happened and why it happened; Per G. Fredriksson and Daniel L. Millimet (2004)

Comparative politics and environmental taxation; Erik Gawel (2001)

Enforcement of environmental charges: some economic aspects and evidence from the German waste water charge; Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Nlandu Mamingi and Hua Wang (2001)

Inspections, pollution prices, and environmental performance: evidence from China; Michael Common (1985)

The distributional implications of higher energy prices in the UK; Alan Krupnik, Winston Harrington and Anna Alberini (2001)

Public support for pollution fee policies for motor vehicles with revenue recycling: survey results; Sarah E .West (2004)

Distributional effects of alternative vehicle pollution control policies; Tomasz Zylicz (1995)

Cost-effectiveness of air pollution abatement in Poland; Patrik SEderholm (2001)

Environmental policy in transition economies: will pollution charges work?.

Part III Ex-ante Analysis: Gunnar S. Eskeland (1994)

A presumptive pigovian tax: complementing regulation to mimic an emissions fee; Lars GENrn Hansen (1999)

A deposit-refund system applied to non-point nitrogen emissions from agriculture; Ardash Varma (2003)

UK's climate change levy: cost effectiveness, competitiveness and environmental impacts; Nick Johnstone, Jaime EcheverrE a, Ina Porres and Ronald MejE as (2001)

The environmental consequences of tax differentiation by vehicle age in Costa Rica; Diana L. Moss and James R. Tybout (1994)

The scope for fuel substitution in manufacturing industries: a case study of Chile and Colombia; Sarah E. West and Roberton C. Williams III (2004)

Estimates from a consumer demand system: implications for the incidence of environmental taxes ; James M. Griffin (1974)

An econometric evaluation of sulphur taxes; Masayoshi Tanishita, Shigeru Kashima and William J. Hayes (2003), Impact analysis of car-related taxes on fuel consumption in Japan; Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian W.H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III and Dallas Burtraw (1999)

The cost-effectiveness of alternative instruments for environmental protection in a second-best setting.

Part IV Ex-post Analysis: Ngee-Choon Chia and Sock-Yong Phang (2001)

Motor vehicle taxes as an environmental management instrument: the case of Singapore; Hua Wang and David Wheeler (2003)

Equilibrium, Pollution and Economic Development in China; Don Fullerton and Thomas C. Kinnaman (1996), Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag; Thomas C. Kinnaman and Don Fullerton (2000), Garbage and recycling with endogenous local policy; Arik Levinson 1999)

State taxes and interstate hazardous waste shipments; Easa LEfren and Henrik Hammar (2000)

The phase-out of leaded gasoline in the EU: a successful failure?; Annegrete Bruvoll and Bodil Merethe Larsen (2004)

Greenhouse gas emissions in Norway: do carbon taxes work?

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