Market Based Instruments

Edited by Larry Kreiser, Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Cleveland State University, US, David Duff, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada, Janet E. Milne, Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, US and Hope Ashiabor, Dr., University of New South Wales Business School, Australia

Contents:

Preface

PART I: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
1. Less Pain, More Gain: The Potential of Carbon Pricing to Reduce Europe’s Fiscal Deficits
John Ward, Robin Smale, Max Krahé and Jacqueline Cottrell

2. Monetary Instruments to Promote Technological Innovation – The German Renewable Energy Act
Monika Böhm

3. Providing Environmental Taxes with an Environmental Purpose
Tatiana Falcão

4. Signaling Effects of Carbon Tax in Sweden: An Empirical Analysis Using a State Space Model
Yasushi Ito

PART II: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN ASIA-PACIFIC
5. Tokyo’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme: A Model for Sustainable Megacity Carbon Markets
Sven Rudolph and Takeshi Kawakatsu

6. Economic Impact Analysis on China’s Environmental Tax Reform through a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Changbo Qin, Jinnan Wang, Chazhong Ge, Shuting Gao, Qianqian Liu and Yajuan Ren

7. The Extraterritorial Impact of the EU and Australian Carbon-restricting Reforms
Juscelino F. Colares

8. Levelling the Playing Field or Playing on Unlevel Fields: The Industry Assistance Framework under the European Union ETS, the New Zealand ETS, and Australia’s CPM
Elena de Lemos Pinto Aydos

PART III: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN NORTH AMERICA
9. Assessing British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Design: Public and Stakeholder Perspectives
Ekaterina Rhodes and Matt Horne

10. Incentives for the Use of Natural Gas Powered Vehicles in the United States, New Zealand and Australia
Bill Butcher, Hans Sprohge, Rahmat Tavallali and Larry Kreiser

Index