Carlo Carraro

Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment - Economics, Energy and Environment Carlo Carraro Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1996 edition

Marc Notes: This book discusses the most recent results available on the green tax reform and the double dividend hypothesis. The first part is devoted to theoretical analysis, and the second provides empirical results. Table of Contents: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Carraro, Carlo Carlo Carraro is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Venice and research director of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. Gilbert E. Metcalf is a professor of economics at Tufts University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.