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trade and environment debate. …USA, Canada and Argentina have challenged before the World Trade Organisation the European Communities’ (EC) denial of … dispute’s most important legal issues in order to see to what extent the dispute might influence the ongoing trade and …
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world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists … reduction in emissions. A second exercise comparing the actual trade situation with an autarky benchmark estimates that trade …
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. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides … access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the investment totally sunk, the corporation must account in its plan not … does not affect the investment time trigger but only the feasible bargaining set. Finally, we show that the optimal sharing …
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efficiency of two main civil liability regimes usually enforced to protect the environment: the strict liability regime and the …
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This article challenges the conventional result that a tighter environmental tax has no long-run effect on human capital accumulation in the presence of pollution arising from final output production. It demonstrates that the technology used in the abatement sector determines the existence and...
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Congestion has become a burden for the Dutch economy. Commuters and businesses are suffering from the time lost in traffic and the unreliability of travel time. Expanding infrastructure can potentially solve such problems, albeit only in the long term and at a high cost. Thus short to...
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This paper studies the delegation of activities that pose serious risks to health and the environment in an economy …
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This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed...
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China’s exceptional economic expansion has led to rising energy demand and pollution as well as other environmental pressures. Strong efforts by the government have moderated emissions of some types of air and water pollution from high levels but others, including greenhouse gas emissions,...
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touching on education, the labour market and the business environment. Areas of particular weakness to be tackled include the …
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