When all countries tax domestic emissions of a pure global pollutant at a rate equal to global marginal damage, some of these countries - typically, developing countries - are likely to be worse off. To win the cooperation of such developing countries, it is often advocated that they receive...

In an economy in which pollution from one sector is multiplicatively and stochastically damaging to another sector, there is efficiency when the expected ratio of the marginal rate of substitution to the marginal rate of transformation equals unity. When this ratio of variables is decomposed,...