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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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Advancing global carbon abatement with a two-tier climate club
Iverson, Terrence - 2022
A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade, while taking their capacity to resist punishment as a constraint. Countries outside the coalition price carbon at a fixed fraction of the average carbon price adopted within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285515
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Coalition formation with border carbon adjustment
Schopf, Mark - 2020
The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...
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Voluntary Emission Restraints in Developing Economies : The Role of Trade Policy
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dolabella, Marcelo; Moreira, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
heterogeneous productivity, demanding labor, dirty natural resources, and intermediate goods from all industries. Second, we …
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Advancing Global Carbon Abatement with a Two-Tier Climate Club
Iverson, Terrence - 2022
A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade, while taking their capacity to resist punishment as a constraint. Countries outside the coalition price carbon at a fixed fraction of the average carbon price adopted within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081042
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Does lax environmental regulation attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2008 - This draft: August 2008
This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015
, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …
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The Precautionary Principle
Guo, Yuhan - 2017
The vast literature surrounding the precautionary principle (PP) in risk management concerns the principle's plausibility and applications, either as an entire concept or in particular formulations. Generally, such scholarship offers either clear support or opposition to the PP as an approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943778
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform in the WTO : Options for Constraining Dual Pricing in the Multilateral Trading System
Marhold, Anna-Alexandra - 2018
Dual pricing is a practice through which resource-endowed states sell their energy resources at significantly lower prices on the domestic market, as compared to the price on the export market. Dual pricing could be considered an environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain...
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