Policy Simulations in the European Union

by Fossati; Amedeo

• ISBN13: 9780415153355
• ISBN10: 0415153352
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The papers in this much needed-collection employ Applied General Equilibrium methodology to address a wide variety of concerns within the European Union.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	x
List of contributors	xiv
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgement	xxiv
PART I International market integration	1	(56)
A general equilibrium analysis of Mediterranean economic integration: the case of Italy and Algeria	3	(21)
Maurizio Bussolo
Giancarlo Pireddu
Chilean accession to the Nafta: general equilibrium estimates	24	(13)
Kenneth A. Reinert
David Roland-Holst
Resource allocation effects of the 1992 Cap reform on the Greek economy	37	(20)
Stella Balfoussias
Roberto A. De Santis
PART II Policy simulations `with alternative treatments of factor markets	57	(66)
The labour market effects of VAT harmonisation in a multicountry Age model	59	(20)
Alan Duncan
John Hutton
Fouad Laroui
Anna Ruocco
Wage curves and capital mobility in a general equilibrium model of Italy	79	(20)
Roberto Roson
Development and application of an Age model with a variable population	99	(24)
Eckhard Lubke
PART III Policies for carbon dioxide abatement	123	(68)
Intra- and intergenerational effects of global carbon limits: a five region analysis	125	(15)
Gunter Stephan
Georg Muller-Furstenberger
Pascal Previdoli
Unilateral taxation of international environmental externalities and sectoral exemptions	140	(16)
Christoph Bohringer
Modelling the effects of energy market distortions on the costs of carbon abatement: computable general equilibrium and partial equilibrium assessment	156	(18)
T. Huw Edwards
Efficiency and distributional effects of ecotaxes in a Cge model for Italy	174	(17)
Alberto Pench
PART IV Competitiveness and convergence	191	(42)
The consequences of technological innovation on employment in the European Union using an Age approach	193	(19)
Hans Kremers
The effect of deficit in a multicountry model with perfect mobility of capital	212	(21)
Rosella Levaggi
PART V Vat and income tax reform	233	(66)
German income tax reforms: separating efficiency from redistribution	235	(29)
Hans Fehr
Wolfgang Wiegard
Are destination and origin principles equivalent? A quantitative evaluation for the European Union	264	(17)
Hans Fehr
Clemente Polo
Welfare effects of Vat rate harmonisation in the European Union	281	(18)
Barbara Cavalletti
Anna Ruocco
Index	299