Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth: An Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing Industries -- Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: An Exploratory Meta-Analysis -- Trade, Technology, and Carbon Emissions: A CGE Analysis for West Germany -- Environmental Policies in Open Economies and Leakage Problems -- Pollution Charges and Incentives -- An Economic Assessment of the Kyoto Protocol Using a Global Model Based on the Marginal Abatement Costs of 12 Regions -- Sharing the Burden of Carbon Abatement in the European Union -- Banking and Trade of Carbon Emission Rights: A CGE Analysis -- Cost-Efficiency Methodology for the Selection of New Car Emission Standards in Europe -- Commitment and Time Consistency of Environmental Policy and Incentives for Adoption and R&D -- Ecological Tax Reform and Efficiency of Taxation: A Public Good Perspective -- Optimal Intertemporal Pricing of Resource Stocks: The Case of Fossil Fuel Extraction and Atmospheric CO2 Deposits -- Balancing the Interests of the Present and the Future.

The papers presented in this volume address a wide range of policy themes in the context of environmental regulation. Investigated issues include the interaction between environmental regulation and economic growth, international competitiveness, structural change, pollution leakage, technological innovation, tax systems, as well as implications for intergenerational and intragenerational burden sharing. The contributors mostly employ econometric approaches or computable general equilibrium analysis. Professionals and academics working in the field of environmental policy analysis will consider this book as a valuable source of information.