Developing countries with comparative advantage in dirty industries face the risk of environmental degradation unless appropriate policy is implemented to curtail industrial emission. Using applied general equilibrium analysis, we examine how trade influences the transfer of environmental...

Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple countries and commodities with much more detailed...

For several decades energy subsidies remain on the top of international policy agenda, serving as one of the most debated and widely used policy tools. Several major international organizations have attempted to quantify global energy subsidies and provide assessment of their potential reform....