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Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes

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  • Mark R Metcalfe

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  • John C Beghin

    (Iowa State University)

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We incorporate endogenous (price-responsive) consumption pollution into a dual trade model to assess welfare effects of coordinated trade and environmental piecemeal reform in a small, open and distorted economy. Pollution is generated by production and consumption. Producers control the level of pollution and face incentives to abate both types of pollution. We identify sufficient conditions for welfare-improving reforms of trade and environmental policies. An additional domestic environmental policy instrument must be imposed on exportables because of their supply response to foreign environmental taxes.

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  • Mark R Metcalfe & John C Beghin, 2015. "Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(4), pages 2282-2287.
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    1. Mark R Metcalfe & John C Beghin, 2015. "Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(4), pages 2282-2287.
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    Keywords

    Trade and environment; piecemeal reform; policy coordination; harmonization;
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    JEL classification:

    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation

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