Distributional effects of environmental policies in Greece

by Joseph N. Lekakis (Department of Economics, The University of Crete, 74100 Rethymno, Greece) Abstract Environmental protection policies generate an equity question concerning the fair allocation of environmental benefits and costs. This paper presents evidence from Greece during the 1980s. The findings reveal that Greek environmental policies, in the form of government self-regulatory programs, are mostly regressive in nature . At the regional level these programs combine all forms of vertical… More information...