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Trade in trash : a political economy approach
Cassing, James Howard; Long, Ngo Van - 2020
We study how the opportunity to trade in trash might influence the equilibrium outcome when the tax on the externality is determined by a political economy process. In our model, individuals have heterogeneous preferences for environmental quality, and there is a leakage when funds are...
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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation
Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001
In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
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Policy and politics : trade adjustment assistance in the crossfire
Laincz, Christopher A.; Matschke, Xenia; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016
The United States introduced Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) as part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act to dampen the adverse impact of increased trade on workers. Applications to receive TAA require approval from the Department of Labor. Guided by the technical criteria used by the U.S....
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
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Join hands or walk alone? : evidence on lobbying for trade policy in India
Saha, Amrita - 2017
Using primary evidence for 146 Indian manufacturing firms, I examine the types of lobbying strategies for trade policy … individually as a single firm (Walk Alone), or adopt a dual lobbying strategy that is a unique combination of collective and … individual lobbying. The findings are a first for India, and suggest the following: First, Indian manufacturing firms join hands …
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Trade, externalities, and the impact of asymmetric information on trade policy
Gori, Giuseppe Francesco; Lambertini, Luca - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between trade liberalisation, consumers' environmental awareness and a negative environmental externality in consumption. We adopt an international Hotelling duopoly setup, where firms are located in two asymmetric countries. We find that, if the...
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Trade and environment : what can we learn from trade policy reviews?
Lim, Aik Hoe; Mathur, Sajal; Suk, Gowoon - 2020 - Manuscript date: 22 January 2020
In order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures notified to WTO. The database also includes...
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Trade policies for a circular economy : what can we learn from WTO experience?
Steinfatt, Karsten - 2020 - Manuscript date: 12 June 2020
From its initial focus on minimizing waste generation, the circular economy has evolved into a broad-based approach to make resource use more sustainable. A big part of the appeal of a circular economy is the opportunities it creates not only for resource savings and better human health and...
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Greening regional trade agreements : subsidies related to energy and environmental goods
Yamaguchi, Shunta - 2019
Many regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain chapters and articles that are environmentally specific. However, Parties can elect to more broadly incorporate environmental objectives in their RTAs to address their environmental concerns in such agreements. This report investigates in what ways...
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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2020
This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non-tariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean industries, where an industry's “dirtiness” is defined as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per dollar of...
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