For a small open economy with consumption-based pollution emissions, the first-best optimal policy prescription is free trade along with a Pigouvian tax on emissions. Therefore, a package of coordinated tax reform by replacing tariffs with emission taxes can lower pollution emissions and...

Various second-best policy mixes of investment measures and environmental taxes for a polluted, small open economy with foreign capital and immovable trade restrictions are examined. The optimal policy mix depends on the types of trade restrictions. When tariffs are in place, strict policies of...

A three-sector general equilibrium model is developed to examine the resource allocation and welfare effects of domestic content protection. An increase in domestic content requirements lowers the urban unemployment ratio, the production of the domestic intermediate good, the import of the...

In this paper, the authors develop a model to analyze the effects of export-share requirements when a quota is in place. They show that, when foreign capital is located in specific economic activity zones identified with the importable sector, an increase in export-share requirements reduces...

This paper examines the short- and long-run effects of partial trade liberalization through relaxation of quantity restrictions in an oligopolistically competitive economy with unemployment. While the short-run effects of the liberalization policy are ambiguous, its long-run impacts are clear:...

The authors demonstrate that growth of a small open economy distorted by import quotas, in contrast to the case of tariffs, improves welfare when the industries display identical variable (or constant) returns to scale. Furthermore, growth cannot reduce welfare if the industry that experiences...

Aid conditional on the purchase of an imported capital good increases the supply of, and demand for, the good. Examining the effects of tied aid on capital accumulation, the current account, and welfare, we find that two resultant conflicting forces render the price of the capital good...

The authors develop an "intertemporal," two-period, two-sector, specific factor model, characterized by generalized wage differentials, and show that a number of pathological results in the domestic distortions literature are all but eliminated. In this model, in contrast to the standard...

In this paper, a Harris-Todaro migration model is developed with the urban manufacturing sector supplying a crucial input for the rural sector. Capital is region specific but flows freely between two urban sectors. Final goods are traded and have exogenously fixed prices. If this economy imposes...

In the context of non-diversifiable and sector-specific risks in labour markets, we show that the resulting factor market distortion - attributable to an endogenous intersectoral wage differential - can provide a possible rationale that explains why larger wage dispersion prevails in developing...