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The Political Economy of Pollution Taxes in a Small Open Economy
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In this article, a positive theory explaining pollution tax policy outcomes in a small open economy is developed, where the equilibrium tax rate depends on lobby group membership, the relative importance of lobbying activities, and the tax elasticity of pollution.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.The article was published on 1997-05-01. It has received 290 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tax rate & Indirect tax.read more
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Trade, Growth and the Environment
TL;DR: For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade as mentioned in this paper, which has been hampered by the lack of a common language and also suffered from little recourse to economic theory and empirical evidence.
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Trade, Growth, and the Environment
TL;DR: For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade as mentioned in this paper, which has been hampered by the lack of a common language and also suffered from little recourse to economic theory and empirical evidence.
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Political instability, corruption and policy formation: the case of environmental policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theory of environmental policy formation, taking into consideration the degree of corruptibility and political turbulence, and the predictions that emerge are that the interaction between the two variables is important.
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Political internalization of economic externalities and environmental policy
TL;DR: The authors derives the characteristics of endogenous environmental policy in a common agency model of politics, and proceeds to show that competition between lobby groups is an important source of internalization of economic externalities.
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Endogenous Pollution Havens: Does FDI Influence Environmental Regulations?
TL;DR: In this paper, a political economy model with imperfect product market competition was developed where local and foreign firms jointly lobbied the local government for a favorable pollution tax, and the effect of foreign direct investment on environmental policies was investigated.
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Protection For Sale
Gene M. Grossman,Elhanan Helpman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model in which special interest groups make political contributions in order to influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy, and studied the structure of protection that emerges in the political equilibrium and the contributions by different lobbies that support the policy outcome.
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The Theory of Environmental Policy
TL;DR: In this article, Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy and present a formal, theoretical treatment of those factors influencing the quality of life.
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Protection for Sale
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a model in which special interest groups make political contributions in order to influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy, and show why these groups may in some cases prefer to have the government use trade policy to transfer income rather than more efficient means.
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Menu Auctions, Resource Allocation, and Economic Influence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a more general class of auctions, in which bidders name a "menu" of offers for various possible actions (allocations) available to the auctioneer.