On trade liberalization and transboundary pollution

Soham Baksi () and Amrita Ray Chaudhuri

Economics Bulletin, 2009, vol. 29, issue 4, 2605-2612

Abstract: We examine the impact of freer trade on equilibrium pollution tax and welfare when markets are imperfectly competitive and pollution is transboundary. In the symmetric case, bilateral tariff reduction (i) strengthens environmental protection if and only if pollution is sufficiently harmful, and (ii) decreases welfare in the neighbourhood of free trade.

Keywords: Transboundary pollution; Strategic environmental policy; Bilateral trade liberalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10-16
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