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Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - CESifo - 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...
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Why are Firms that Export Cleaner? International Trade and CO2 Emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - CESifo - 2014
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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Trade Tariffs and Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2013
In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these IEAs reduce total emissions only slightly...
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Unintended Detrimental Effects of Environmental Policy: The Green Paradox and Beyond
Werf, Edwin van der; Maria, Corrado Di - CESifo - 2011
Well-intended policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions may have unintended undesirable consequences. Recently, a large literature has emerged showing under what conditions this so-called ‘Green Paradox’ may occur. We review this literature and identify the key mechanisms behind...
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Per-Capital Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environment Policies
Markusen, James R. - CESifo - 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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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...
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Maquiladoras and Informality: A Mixed Blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - CESifo - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391722
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and …
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Offshoring Domestic Jobs
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - CESifo - 2013
) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …
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Managerial versus Production Wages: Offshoring, Country Size and Endowments
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …
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