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Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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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Pricing Policy Under Double Market Power: Madagascar and the International Vanilla Market
de Melo, Jaime; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Takacs, Wendy E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper uses a price-leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123561
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Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition
Di Comite, Francesco; Thisse, Jacques-François; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The pattern of trade observed from firm-product-country data calls for a new generation of models. To address the unexplained variation in the data, we propose a new model of monopolistic competition where varieties enter preferences non-symmetrically, capturing both horizontal and vertical...
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
, especially if efforts are undertaken to raise the price of energy. A discussion of border measures to complement mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677241
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
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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Trade in a 'Green Growth' Development Strategy: Issues and Challenges
de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083801
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Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?
de Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...
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Per-Capita Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environmental Policies
Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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Reconciling Trade and Climate Policies
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The outcome of the 15th conference of the Parties to the UNFCC showed a shift from a top-down approach with a collective target favoring environmental objectives to a bottom-up accord favoring political feasibility. There is no meaningful binding agreement in sight, also because the global...
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Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
National barriers to trade are often varied to insulate domestic markets from international price variability. This … paper explores the extent of that behavior by governments using estimates of agricultural price distortions in 75 countries …. Newly estimated price transmission elasticities are quite low, albeit slightly higher since than before 1985. In the case of …
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