We study environmental policy in a two nation world in which there is strategic behavior by governments and polluting firms. Two issues are analyzed. First, the conditions under which the conduct of unilateral environmental policy by a nation in a Bertrand game will immiserize that nation, are...

In this paper we study some of the consequences of national environmental policy in a strategic international setting. Two broad questions are analyzed. First, we examine the circumstances under which the pursuit of environmental policy by a country in a Cournot game will make that country worse...

I construct a dynamic model of the environmental policy formulation process in a stylized developing country (DC). Next, I analyze the employment and output effects of three pollution control policies. These policies embody different assumptions about the DC government's ability to commit to its...

We first review the literature relating to the protection of the modern sector in developing countries (DCs). We then discuss the connections between protection, economic dualism, and optimal environmental policy in DCs. Next, we construct an intertemporal model of the environmental policy...

We describe the theoretical and empirical contributions that rigorous economic analysis can make in improving our understanding of the salient issues relating to environmental protection in the presence of international trade. We do this by analyzing and summarizing the intellectual...

We exploit the known links between natural habitats and biodiversity to pose and study the biodiversity conservation question as an optimal stopping problem. We extend the extant literature on this question by studying the role that autonomous and nonautonomous policies play in the decision to...

We exploit the known links between natural habitats and biodiversity to pose and study the biodiversity conservation question as an optimal stopping problem. We extend the existing literature on this query by studying the role that autonomous and nonautonomous policies play in the decision to...