Tekijä: | Copeland, B. |
Otsikko: | Pollution content tariffs, environmental rent shifting, and the control of cross-border pollution |
Lehti: | Journal of International Economics
1996 : MAY, VOL. 40:3/4, p. 459-476 |
Asiasana: | ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL POLLUTION |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | This paper considers the optimal unilateral policy for a country that imports a good from a neighbouring country and is harmed by pollution generated during the production of that good. If the foreign country has a variable abatement technology, then Home has an incentive to impose a tax on the pollution content of imports (a pollution content tariff). Foreign regulation of pollution does not eliminate Home's incentives to intervene , but instead may create rent-shifting opportunities. By making the right to pollute a scarce asset, foreign pollution quotas create rents that the home government can try to extract. |
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