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There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...
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conditions under which private licensing of pollution abatement technology, linked to cooperation on environmental policy …. Ironically, the more technologically-advanced pollution abatement becomes, the less incentive there is for the recipient to …
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This study estimates the impact of carbon pricing on international trade in equipment used in the combustion of fossil fuels during the period 1995--2021. Using detailed data on bilateral trade combined with data on domestic carbon prices, we find that carbon pricing policies are associated with...
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and South, with different environmental standards. Pollution is a by-product of consumption and in order to abate it the … to their pollution intensities, regardless of where those goods are produced, the model shows that such a unilateral … environmental policy can increase the speed of technological change and pollution abatement in both regions …
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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. A temporary Northern...
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In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
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In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
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We consider a North-South model of capital mobility in which foreign investment adversely impacts the environment in …
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provide a more complete measure of trade' s welfare effects. The paper describes a model of trade and the environment …
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