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Item Open Access Dilemmas of structural adjustment and environmental policies under instability(Elsevier, 1996-02) Boratav, K.; Tural, O.; Yeldan, E.The Turkish structural adjustment since 1980 has been associated with chronic instability. Since the late 1980s, the weaknesses in the fiscal system and the premature external liberalization emerge as the main factors hindering the passage toward stable growth. Enforced and erratic distributional changes and relative stagnation of capital accumulation have undermined the growth potential of the economy. Further, it is demonstrated that existing market structures may negate environmental policies based on market incentives. These observations, as well as those on the interactions of the market system and the environment, create strong arguments in favor of an active state.Item Open Access Tracing the second dividend in environmental policies : a CGE application to Turkey(Bilkent University, 2009) Vural, BengisuAs the threat of global warming is becoming more evident, the governments are called for a joint action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and prevent climate change, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its legally binding successor, the Kyoto Protocol. The inevitability of environmental policy implementation in such a context has focused the recent energy-environmenteconomy literature on the examination of costs related with those policy measures and the possibility of a double dividend, i.e. economic improvements along with environmental benefits. This study, by making use of a ten sector CGE model for Turkey, searches for the second dividend in the presence of environmental taxation by payroll tax reductions. The results indicate that it is possible to achieve emission reductions with no additional burden on the economy if the environmental taxes are accompanied by a reduction in payroll taxes.