Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...

This paper examines a simple North-South growth model where negative externalities may contribute to reinforce economic growth. Agents' welfare depends on three goods in the model: leisure, a common access renewable natural resource (one in each hemisphere) and a non-storable consumption good....

We analyze welfare effects of trade in open-access renewable resources, which is induced by consumer love of variety in resource consumption. We consider two countries that are heterogeneous in incomes - high and low - and symmetric otherwise. We show that increasing trade freeness benefits the...