Recommended Citation
Postprint version. Published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 47, Issue 2, March 1, 2004, pages 260-269.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Stephen Hamilton was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0095-0696(03)00080-9.
Abstract
The idea that environmental trade policy can be used to achieve competitive advantage in international markets has important implications for the way we conceive free trade. This paper considers strategic environmental policy in a model that makes explicit the vertical structure that supports production of the traded good. Including intranational vertical relationships in the analysis of strategic environmental trade policy has substantial qualitative effects. When vertical contracts are allowed, the optimal policy to levy on a polluting input under both quantity and price competition in the international market is the Pigouvian tax.
Disciplines
Economics
Copyright
2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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