This chapter demonstrates that governments may have incentives to impose weak
environmental standards on industries that compete for business in imperfectly competitive …

Recent debates over further moves towards trade liberalization have led to a number of
claims by environmentalists that such moves would be damaging to the environment, in part …

Over the last several decades, many nations have adopted sophisticated environmental
policies. At the heart of these policies are a variety of standards and regulations that address …

The Porter hypothesis claims that a strong environmental policy best serves the interests of a
nation's export industry. While this hypothesis seems to be based on some form of bounded …

Some environmentalists express concern that trade liberalization may damage the
environment by giving governments incentives to relax environmental policies to give …

Increasing economic openness has given rise to concerns about possible detrimental effects
on the environment. Expanded trading opportunities in natural resources and hazardous …

I review and extend three approaches to trade and environmental policies: competitive
general equilibrium, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. The first two have surprisingly …

This book analyzes the relationship of environmental quality, environmental policy and
international trade. Environmental quality management will redefine comparative advantage …

This chapter complements the results of the less rigorous location of industry studies by
providing an empirical test of the hypothesis that stringent environmental policy has caused …

Environmental regulation by a large trading country affects the world price of traded
commodities. A series of second-best environmental taxes are derived which explicitly …