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Trade and trees : how trade agreements can motivate conservation instead of depletion

Harstad, Bård - 2020

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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Structural disparities in carbon dioxide consumption and trade in the world economy

Ederer, Stefan; Weingärtner, Stefan - 2014

they externalise pollution to less developed countries. This paper offers a way to quantify climate responsibility by … value chain shifts. Footprint growth in the center is strongly linked to additional pollution and technical development in …

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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 - 2021

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Carbon Matching Commitments

Coleman, James W. - 2022

transnational institutions. Game theory has suggested that one possible answer to this form of dilemma is domestic action employing …

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Strategic Environmental Policy with Technology Licensing

Das, Jayoti - 2014

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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Green accounting, institutional quality and investment decisions : macroeconomic implications from an analysis of the oil and mining sector

Stöver, Jana - 2016

This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...

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Essays on environmental aspects in North-South economic relations

Krings, Hanna - 2017

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Climate Policy and Trade in Polluting Technologies

Ferguson, Shon M.; Heijmans, Roweno - 2023

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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Trade, Technical Progress and the Environment : The Role of a Unilateral Green Tax on Consumption

Marconi, Daniela - 2014

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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