This paper examines the effects of unilateral tax policy in the open economy. We construct a general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous agents allowing for country asymmetries. We find that in contrast to a symmetric country set-up the share of exporting firms is endogenous. We show that...

The PhD dissertation consists of three self-contained parts that deal with representing technology in environmental economic models. All three parts offer ways for improving economic models by leveraging knowledge on technologies collected by other academic disciplines. The first two parts...