Edited by Emmanuel Petrakis, Associate Professor of Economics, Universiy of Crete, Greece, Eftichios S. Sartzetakis, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, Greece and Anastasios Xepapadeas, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

'. . . this is an excellent book. I recommend it strongly to all those who have the technical skills needed to understand, appreciate, criticize and build on, the complex models and arguments presented in it.'

• Contents: Introduction 1. Emission Taxes for Price Setting Firms: Differentiated Commodities and Monopolistic Competition 2. Minimum Quality Standard as an Environmental Policy: Domestic and International Effects 3. Emissions Permits Trading and Market Structure 4. Experimental Tests of Market Power in Emission Trading Markets 5. The Competitive Implications of Facility-Specific Environmental Agreements: The Intel Corporation and Project XL 6. Environmental Policy and Time Consistency: Emission Taxes and Emissions Trading 7. Does Government Precommitment Promote Environmental Innovation? 8. Diffusion of Abatement Technologies in a Differentiated Industry 9. Pollution, Pigouvian Taxes and Asymmetric International Oligopoly 10. R&D Cooperation, Innovation Spillovers and Firm Location in a Model of Environmental Policy 11. Relative Standards as Strategic Instruments in Open Economies 12. Ecological Dumping: Harmonization and Minimum Standards Index

Edited by Emmanuel Petrakis, Associate Professor of Economics, Universiy of Crete, Greece, Eftichios S. Sartzetakis, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, Greece and Anastasios Xepapadeas, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

'. . . this is an excellent book. I recommend it strongly to all those who have the technical skills needed to understand, appreciate, criticize and build on, the complex models and arguments presented in it.'

• Contents: Introduction 1. Emission Taxes for Price Setting Firms: Differentiated Commodities and Monopolistic Competition 2. Minimum Quality Standard as an Environmental Policy: Domestic and International Effects 3. Emissions Permits Trading and Market Structure 4. Experimental Tests of Market Power in Emission Trading Markets 5. The Competitive Implications of Facility-Specific Environmental Agreements: The Intel Corporation and Project XL 6. Environmental Policy and Time Consistency: Emission Taxes and Emissions Trading 7. Does Government Precommitment Promote Environmental Innovation? 8. Diffusion of Abatement Technologies in a Differentiated Industry 9. Pollution, Pigouvian Taxes and Asymmetric International Oligopoly 10. R&D Cooperation, Innovation Spillovers and Firm Location in a Model of Environmental Policy 11. Relative Standards as Strategic Instruments in Open Economies 12. Ecological Dumping: Harmonization and Minimum Standards Index

Edited by Emmanuel Petrakis, Associate Professor of Economics, Universiy of Crete, Greece, Eftichios S. Sartzetakis, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Macedonia, Greece and Anastasios Xepapadeas, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

'. . . this is an excellent book. I recommend it strongly to all those who have the technical skills needed to understand, appreciate, criticize and build on, the complex models and arguments presented in it.'

• Contents: Introduction 1. Emission Taxes for Price Setting Firms: Differentiated Commodities and Monopolistic Competition 2. Minimum Quality Standard as an Environmental Policy: Domestic and International Effects 3. Emissions Permits Trading and Market Structure 4. Experimental Tests of Market Power in Emission Trading Markets 5. The Competitive Implications of Facility-Specific Environmental Agreements: The Intel Corporation and Project XL 6. Environmental Policy and Time Consistency: Emission Taxes and Emissions Trading 7. Does Government Precommitment Promote Environmental Innovation? 8. Diffusion of Abatement Technologies in a Differentiated Industry 9. Pollution, Pigouvian Taxes and Asymmetric International Oligopoly 10. R&D Cooperation, Innovation Spillovers and Firm Location in a Model of Environmental Policy 11. Relative Standards as Strategic Instruments in Open Economies 12. Ecological Dumping: Harmonization and Minimum Standards Index