Intra-Industry Trade in Dirty Goods and Environmental Policies

Sen, Anindita (2013): Intra-Industry Trade in Dirty Goods and Environmental Policies.

Abstract

In this paper we study the effect of intra-industry trade in an environmental-quality differentiated good on the pollution level in a two-country framework when there are strategic interactions between the firms in the two countries. The pro-competitive effect of intra-industry trade expands the scale of production and, therefore, increases pollution in both the countries. Effect on the strategic choice of environmental qualities of the good is, on the other hand, asymmetric for the two producers. Impact of environmental policies like pollution content production tax and tariff on trade and pollution levels are also studied. .

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Intra-Industry trade, environmental pollution, environmental standard
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F18 - Trade and Environment; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q00 - General

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