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Strategic environmental policy and the mobility of firms

Richter, Philipp M.; Runkel, Marco; Schmidt, Robert C. - 2019

The loss of international competitiveness of domestic industries remains a key obstacle to the implementation of effective carbon prices in a world without harmonized climate policies. We analyze countries' non-cooperative choices of emissions taxes under imperfect competition and mobile...

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The case for international emission trade in the absence of cooperative climate policy

Carbone, Jared C.; Helm, Carsten; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2008

We evaluate the efficacy of international trade in carbon emission permits when countries are guided strictly by their national self-interest. To do so, we construct a calibrated general equilibrium model that jointly describes the world economy and the strategic incentives that guide the design...

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Environmental Dumping and International Unionized Oligopolies

Ma, Jie; Duan, Qi - 2014

This paper studies whether environmental dumping is a robust strategic environmental policy toward international … competitors, governments engage in environmental dumping policies; and the extent to which optimal environmental taxes deviate … strength, if the degree of product differentiation is sufficient, governments engage in environmental dumping policies. (iii …

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New trade models, same old emissions?

Sogalla, Robin; Wanner, Joschka; Watabe, Yuta - 2024

This paper investigates the elusive role of productivity heterogeneity in new trade models in the trade and environment nexus. We contrast the Eaton-Kortum and the Melitz models with firm heterogeneity to the Armington and Krugman models without heterogeneity. We show that if firms have a...

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New trade models, same old emissions?

Sogalla, Robin; Wanner, Joschka; Watabe, Yuta - 2024

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Chapter 27 International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Environment

Rauscher, Michael - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1403-1456). 2005

The 1990s produced a large literature on foreign trade and the environment, including both theoretical and empirical contributions. The paper surveys this literature. It starts by looking at the traditional Heckscher–Ohlin type models of international trade and then moves to noncompetitive...

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The new European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Sogalla, Robin - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 22, pp. 153-159

In October 2023, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a part of the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), will come into effect. Currently, energy-intensive industries do not need to purchase all of the necessary EU ETS allowances on the market to remain globally...

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Unilateral carbon pricing and heterogeneous firms

Sogalla, Robin - 2023

Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as...

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A Differential Game Theoretic Analysis of International Trade in Renewable Resources

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2015

We use a Stackelberg differential game to model trade in renewable resources between a monopsonistic buyer and a monopolistic seller. The buyer uses unit and ad valorem tariffs to indirectly encourage conservation of the resource under study. First, we show that the efficacy of these tariffs in...

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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012

This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....

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