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.The paper shows that a carbon tax should not be differentiated across sectors in the economy, provided import and export tariffs … cooperating countries if they are prevented from using tariffs on the traded goods. Informational or political factors … constraining the use of tariffs are also likely to constrain the possibility of differentiating carbon taxes between sectors …
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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm …
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This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
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unilaterally as under the early days of the GATT might be the most promising way ahead while preserving an open World Trading …
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We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
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This paper discusses the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country’s development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs);(ii) ‘virtual trade’ in...
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agree on an approach to reduce barriers to trade. For EGs, tariffs and NTBs are highest for low-income countries and low for … high-income countries. First-order estimates of the import response to a 50% reduction in tariffs for low-income countries …
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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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second-order contribution to world-wide CO2 emissions. Evidence shows increasing carbon transfers through trade, but the …
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This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements. In the situation under study, imports may cause environmental damage, in which case less favorable treatment of imported products may be globally desirable from an international...
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