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A unilateral tax on CO2 emissions may drive up indirect carbon imports from non-committed countries, leading to carbon … trade. We construct a novel data set of CO2 emissions embodied in bilateral trade flows. Its panel structure allows dealing …
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The paper considers a situation where two countries - the North and the South - use a non-traded polluting input to produce the goods for final consumption. The North is more efficient in both, production and abatement processes. The study compares the effects of the transfer of abatement...
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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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Free trade can often lead to resource depletion, such as deforestation in the tropics. This paper first presents a dynamic model whereby the South (S) depletes to export the extracted units (timber) or the produce (beef) from land available after depletion. Because of the damages, the North...
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countries dropping out of the global mitigation effort? We develop a multisector structural trade model with emissions from … more than a third of the world emissions reduction (31.8% direct effect and 6.4% leakage effect), while a potential Chinese …
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International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show … that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a …-output linkages, trade imbalances, fossil fuel extraction, and carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and use this framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426856
International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show … that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a …-output linkages, trade imbalances, fossil fuel extraction, and carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and use this framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438419
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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International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show … that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a …-output linkages, trade imbalances, fossil fuel extraction, and carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and use this framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469574
Online Technical Appendix to "Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?"It describes in more detail the data sources, the empirical strategy; and presents a series of robustness checks.
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