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Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard …
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The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, environmental standard of the host countries and pollution intensity of the … transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the 'pollution haven' hypothesis, but the overall …
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pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored … key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …
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finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …
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Bovenberg and de Mooij (1994) showed that, in the presence of preexisting distorting taxes, the optimal pollution tax … hypothesis,' which suggests that a tax on pollution can both improve the environment and reduce distortions in the tax system …
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Despite technological advances, an individual car's emissions still cannot be measured reliably enough to impose a Pigovian tax. This paper explores alternative market incentives that could be used instead. We solve for second-best combinations of uniform taxes on gasoline, engine size, and...
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Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...
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pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
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relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …
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This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We … examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations when it alters the composition, and hence the pollution … develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then …
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