North–South Trade and Heterogeneous Damages from Local and Global Pollution

Article dans une revue: This paper examines how income-induced environmental policy differences and damage heterogeneity interact to determine the comparative advantage in a polluting activity. In a non-cooperative framework, North and South regulate two types of pollution, local pollution (e.g., air and water pollution) and global pollution (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions), each of which induces heterogeneous damages for consumers. I find that (1) North or South can have the comparative advantage in the dirty sector; (2) whatever the region with this comparative advantage, the worldwide level of global pollution can either increase or decrease with trade; (3) local and global emissions evolve symmetrically in each region with trade, even though pollution regulations may be asymmetric.

Auteur(s)

Hélène Ollivier

Revue
  • Environmental and Resource Economics
Date de publication
  • 2016
Mots-clés
  • Multiple pollutants
  • Heterogeneous damages
  • International trade
Pages
  • first online
Version
  • 1