Prof. Dr. Klaus Conrad
Prof. Dr. Klaus Conrad
University of Mannheim – Department of Economics
Chair of the DFG Research Training Group 488 – The Economics of the Environment and of Resources
Homepage
kconrad@rumms.uni-mannheim.de
Research Focus
Environmental Economics
Industrial Organization
Microeconomics
Computable General
Equilibrium Models
Selected Publications
Computable General Equilibrium Models in Environmental and Resource. Economics, in: T. Tietenberg und H. Folmer (eds), The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2002/03, 66-114, 2002.
Locational Competition under Environmental Regulation when Input Prices and Productivity Differ, erscheint in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2004.
Recycling of Eco-Taxes, Labor Marked Effects and the True Cost of Labor – A CGE Analysis, erscheint in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2004.
Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment, erscheint in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2005.
Congress-Abstract
国際競争における手段としての環境保護
世界市場の統合と東欧諸国の加盟したEU域内での競争を前提とするならば、厳しい規制を伴う環境政策の継続は、市場がほとんど統合されていない場合と比較して、産業立地条件などドイツの競争力に対して、より重大な影響を及ぼす。議論の中心を占めるのは、環境規制による経済への肯定的な結果、とりわけ、環境技術産業の創出による経済的効果である。環境保護と国際競争との間で衝突が生じると予測される一方で、他方では、規制の厳しい環境政策が一因となって、国内企業の業績水準が改善されるという見解も存在する。環境関連の制約は産業立地の質や国際競争とどの程度関連性があるのか、また、国際的な競争能力が厳しい環境規制によって改善されるのはどのような方法によるのか。これらの点が検討される。
Environmental Protection as an Instrument in the International Competition
Given the integration of the global markets and the competition within the European Community (EC) after the East European countries joined the EC, the continuation of an environmental policy that is subject to strict regulations, will have more significant effect on the competitiveness of Germany as an industrial location, compared to times when markets were hardly integrated. In the foreground of discussions are economic positive consequences of environmental regulation, particularly economic effects of building up an environmental technical industry. While on the one hand a conflict between protection of the environment and international competitiveness is suspected, there is, on the other hand, the opinion that with the help of a strict environmental policy, the standard of national enterprises’ performance can be improved. An open question is, to which extent environmentally related conditions are relevant for the quality of an industrial location and for international competitiveness and, in which way an improvement of international competitiveness is attainable by strict environmental regulation.