This paper looks at how the entry of a multinational in the domestic market of an industry in a developing country affects the total industry wide employment. It is assumed that the technology of the multinational is more efficient than the domestic technology. Standard Cournot oligopoly and...

This paper shows that when a very dirty technology is associated with positive production of a good in an economy then marginal reductions in dirtiness of the technology might lead to an increase in pollution if its consumers are environmentally very aware and a decrease in pollution if...

The introduction of cleaner technologies may often backfire as the induced increase in output of the concerned good might overwhelm the positive environmental effect emanating directly from the decreased in emissions per unit output. This paper proves some elementary theorems about such rebound...