This paper models the geographical composition of Swiss foreign trade. Imports and exports are disaggregated into nine regions which together cover the entire OECD area. Given the large size of the model, the use of a flexible functional form is problematic. An attractive alternative is provided...

Environmental policy is an important spearhead of sustainable development. The more economic instruments can be incorporated into environmental protection policy, the more it will contribute to integration of industry within the environment and thus to sustainable development. In the past, Swiss...

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It is commonly believed that an increase in environmental awareness is conducive to the protection of the global commons. Moreover, it has been proposed that governments should "give a good example" by unilaterally reducing emissions. In a simple analytical framework it is shown that these...

In this contribution we propose to use revenues from environmental taxes within each sector to reduce wage taxes. Such a recycling scheme enhances the political feasibility of environmental taxes since no inter-sectoral transfers take place. Furthermore, we show that this proposal will lessen...

In Switzerland, electricity conservation has been given one of the top priorities in the programme "Energy 2000", in order to avoid any development of a national nuclear power capacity. This conservation effort is concentrated on constructed areas as they seem to offer many electricity saving...

The paper studies the effects of environmental policy on world-wide growth and the global emission level. For this purpose, a macroeconomic North/South-model with two different assumptions on the dislocation of firms from North to South is constructed ("imitation"- and "production...