Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World

I. Introduction.- 1. Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World: An Introductory Summary.- 2. Public Finance and the Environment.- 3. The Political Economy of Implementing Environmental Taxes.- II. An Imperfect World.- 4. Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Towards Efficient Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges.- 5. Global Climate Change, Energy Subsidies and National Carbon Taxes.- III. Assessment Problems.- 6. How a Fee Per-unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households.- 7. Environmental Taxes on Intermediate and Final Goods When Both Can be Imported.- IV. Institutional Aspects.- 8. Are Incentive Instruments as Good as Economists Believe? Some New Considerations.- 9. The Political Economy of the Environment in Developing Countries: Market Failure and Institutional Response.- 10. Pollution Taxes as a Source of Budgetary Revenues in Economies in Transition.- V. The Need for Coordination.- 11. The Role of the European Union in Environmental Taxation.- 12. Pure Global Externalities: International Efficiency and Equity.- 13. International Coordination of Environmental Policies and Stability of Global Environmental Agreements.- VI. Efficiency and Distribution Issues.- 14. Environmental Taxation and the “Double Dividend:” A Reader’s Guide.- 15. Energy Levies and Endogenous Technology in an Empirical Simulation Model for the Netherlands.- 16. Welfare and the Environment: Implications of a Recent Tax Reform in Norway.- Name Index.