This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 … global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle … global climate regime. The reverse is also true, that in a linked climate-trade-finance global policy coordination structure …

climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …

Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world with a few countries, mostly in high … international trade in attenuating the effects of climate change by allowing the expression of the new climate-induced pattern of … comparative advantages. To do this, we develop a quantitative general equilibrium trade model where the representation of acreage …

dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce …

We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather … where and how to produce and who to trade with. We study how expectations, market structure and firm heterogeneity determine …

Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global …

economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we … highlight have framed much of the ongoing discussion and research on the Kyoto protocol our viewpoint from trade theory suggests … a re-examination may be in order. Specifically, we demonstrate that in an open trading world, but not in a closed …

dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this … prediction using a global climatic phenomenon as a natural experiment. We find that gains from trade in cereals over the last …