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Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions

Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...

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Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to improve the ecological performance of the urban system. This approach overlooks a fundamental fact: what matters for the ecological outcome of...

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Anti-Dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment

Collie, David R; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The Byrd amendment to US anti-dumping law distributes the revenue from anti-dumping duties imposed on foreign firms to … the domestic firms that lodged the complaint of dumping. This Paper shows that the presence of the Byrd Amendment can … market share of the domestic industry exceeds 50%, which applies in most US anti-dumping cases. …

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...

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Trade in a 'Green Growth' Development Strategy: Issues and Challenges

de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper discusses the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country’s development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs);(ii) ‘virtual trade’ in...

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Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?

de Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...

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Per-Capita Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environmental Policies

Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies

Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...

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Reconciling Trade and Climate Policies

de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is no meaningful binding agreement in sight, also because the global...

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Unravelling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect

de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and decomposing it into three components: a `deep' (i.e. unrelated to the environmental debate)...

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