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Trade and Trees : How Trade Agreements Can Motivate Conservation Instead of Depletion

Harstad, Bård - 2021

Free trade often leads to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a dynamic model whereby the South (S) depletes to export the extracted units (lumber) or the produce (beef) from land available after depletion. Because of the damages, the North...

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Trade, Trees, and Contingent Trade Agreements

Harstad, Bård - 2022

Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...

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Trade and Trees: How Trade Agreements Can Motivate Conservation Instead of Depletion

Harstad, Bård - 2020

Free trade can often lead to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a dynamic model whereby the South (S) depletes to export the extracted units (timber) or the produce (beef) from land available after depletion. Because of the damages, the North...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314856

The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … afford private mitigation of the adverse consequences of pollution is a central feature of the analysis. Private mitigation … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a …

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Trade and the environment: The role of firm heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence … relative importance of these effects, and hence the overall effect of trade liberalisation on the environment, is affected by …

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Advancing Global Carbon Abatement with a Two-Tier Climate Club

Iverson, Terrence - 2022

A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade, while taking their capacity to resist punishment as a constraint. Countries outside the coalition price carbon at a fixed fraction of the average carbon price adopted within the...

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Per-Capital Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environment Policies

Markusen, James R. - 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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Carbon Tariffs: An Analysis of the Trade, Welfare and Emission Effects

Larch, Mario; Wanner, Joschka - 2014

Carbon tariffs are one prominently discussed environmental policy. The proponents stress the carbon tariffs' ability to mitigate the potential negative effect of environmental-friendly production on competitiveness, to avoid carbon leakage and to reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the...

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Trade, Trees, and Contingent Trade Agreements

Harstad, Bård - 2022

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Resource Dependence, Recycling, and Trade

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023

Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste must be safely stored by landfill to avoid...

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