Ecological dumping is a catchword used in the public discussion on environmental policies in open economies to characterize situations in which a country uses a too-lax environmental legislation as an instrument of achieving trade-related economic policy goals. The paper first tries to define...

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the HEckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...