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Trade, Politics,and the Environment: Tailpipe vs. Smokestack

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Carol McAusland (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Economists interested in the interaction between trade, politics and the environ-ment have restricted their attention almost exclusively to the problem of production related--"smokestack"--pollution. We instead consider consumption related--"tailpipe"--pollution and show that this can reverse a number of core results. For example, we show that the impact of regulation on trade patterns depends on the type of pollution being regulated: while strict smokestack regula-tion dampens exports of pollution intensive goods, tailpipe regulation may promote these exports. Similarly, we show that pollution type may fundamentally alter the impact of openness on political opposition to environmental regulation: while openness may make dirty industry oppose smokestack regulation more vociferously, it can make industry a less ardent enemy of tailpipe regulation.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 8-04.

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  1. Carol McAusland, 2003. "Harmonizing Emissions Policy in Symmetric Countries: Improve the Environment, Improve Welfare?," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 21-02, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
  2. Monica Das & Sandwip Das, 2007. "Can Stricter Environmental Regulations Increase Export of the Polluting Good?," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 7(1), pages 1717-1717. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Carol McAusland, 2004. "Environmental Regulation as Export Promotion: Product Standards for Dirty Intermediate Goods," Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 3(2), pages 1367-1367. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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