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Item Open Access The determinants of environmental policy stringency and the impact of environmental regulations on trade(2000) Çalışkan, AhmetIn this thesis, we first focus on the relationship between stringency of environmental regulation and some conventional indicators of economic development. We argue that this approach measures a more immediate relationship than previous studies that have concentrated on the relationship between income and emissions of pollutants. In a cross-sectional analysis, we find that the relationship between income and environmental policy stringency (EPS) is, to some degree, in line with previous findings that suggested an inverted-U type relationship between income and emissions, called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). We also find that trade liberalization has a positive effect on EPS. The second part of our study evaluates the impact of EPS on international competitiveness in dirty industries. The analysis is done for three industries and only one of them yields evidence for the relocation of dirty industries to jurisdictions with lax regulation; the results were inconclusive overall.Item Open Access Market-based environmental regulation in the post-kyoto world : analysis of Turkey's action plan in general equilibrium framework(2012) Akın Olçum, GökçeThe purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the economic impacts of Turkey’s environmental regulation based on emission trading schemes in the post-Kyoto world. The dissertation is composed of two main parts. The first part is dedicated to the methodology underlying the Multi-Region Environmental and Trade Policy Analysis (MR-ETPA) model, which is developed for simulating market-based environmental regulation policies in general equilibrium framework. In the second part, the MR-ETPA model is further used for simulating the potential emission trading schemes that Turkey considers to apply, i.e. unilateral nationwide trading and international trading of permits within the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The results indicate that Turkey has economic gains under bilateral trading within the EU ETS in comparison to domestic trading schemes. The economic benefits of the European Union highly depend on the design of the Turkish emission trading scheme. While unilateral trading schemes result in economic gains for the European Union, the net effect under bilateral trading very much depends on the total cost burden that Turkey imposes on the individual sectors.