This work is concerned with the interdependent relationship between trade and the environment. It comprises three chapters. The first chapter (work done jointly with Joel Rodrigue) builds and estimates a dynamic model of investment in environmental abatement and exports with heterogeneous firms....

The dissertation studies the effect of trade liberalization in one sector on factor prices, employment, and average productivity of firms in the other sector (spillover effect) in a two-country, specific-factors model of international trade where the industry structure of the sector affected by...