Edited by John B. Braden, Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the Water Resources Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, and Stef Proost, Associate Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

• Contents: 1. Introduction (J. Braden, E. Feinzaig, S. Proost) 2. The Economic Cycles of Federalism (T.S. Ulen) 3. Intergovernmental Transfers in a Federal System: an Economic Analysis of Unfunded Mandates (K. Segerson, T.J. Miceli, L.-C. Wen) 4. International Environmental Regulation when National Governments act Strategically 5. Environmental Tax Competition – A Simulation Study of Nonsymmetric Countries (K. Conrad) 6. The Welfare Economics of Environmental Regulatory Authority: Two Parables on State vs Federal Control (P. Shapio, J. Petchey) 7. Fiscal Competition and Cooperation in Natural Resource Markets (G.S. Amacher, R.J. Braxee) Index

Edited by John B. Braden, Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the Water Resources Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, and Stef Proost, Associate Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

• Contents: 1. Introduction (J. Braden, E. Feinzaig, S. Proost) 2. The Economic Cycles of Federalism (T.S. Ulen) 3. Intergovernmental Transfers in a Federal System: an Economic Analysis of Unfunded Mandates (K. Segerson, T.J. Miceli, L.-C. Wen) 4. International Environmental Regulation when National Governments act Strategically 5. Environmental Tax Competition – A Simulation Study of Nonsymmetric Countries (K. Conrad) 6. The Welfare Economics of Environmental Regulatory Authority: Two Parables on State vs Federal Control (P. Shapio, J. Petchey) 7. Fiscal Competition and Cooperation in Natural Resource Markets (G.S. Amacher, R.J. Braxee) Index

Edited by John B. Braden, Professor of Environmental Economics and Director of the Water Resources Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, and Stef Proost, Associate Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

• Contents: 1. Introduction (J. Braden, E. Feinzaig, S. Proost) 2. The Economic Cycles of Federalism (T.S. Ulen) 3. Intergovernmental Transfers in a Federal System: an Economic Analysis of Unfunded Mandates (K. Segerson, T.J. Miceli, L.-C. Wen) 4. International Environmental Regulation when National Governments act Strategically 5. Environmental Tax Competition – A Simulation Study of Nonsymmetric Countries (K. Conrad) 6. The Welfare Economics of Environmental Regulatory Authority: Two Parables on State vs Federal Control (P. Shapio, J. Petchey) 7. Fiscal Competition and Cooperation in Natural Resource Markets (G.S. Amacher, R.J. Braxee) Index