Transboundary pollution and the gains from trade

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Benarroch, M; Thille, H
• 署名单位: University of Winnipeg
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00084-8
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 139-159
• 关键词: transboundary pollution; production externality; Ricardian model

摘要

We analyze the effects of transboundary pollution on trade and welfare in a general equilibrium model. Production in one industry generates pollution that negatively effects productivity, at home and abroad, in another industry. Trade may lead to the spatial separation of production but does not always lead to efficient patterns of specialization. Transboundary pollution, by breaking the link between the generation and incidence of pollution, can improve the potential for trade to distribute production in an efficient manner. If trade does not efficiently distribute production, transboundary pollution can exacerbate losses from trade potentially causing both countries to lose from trade. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BY. All rigths reserved.