North-South trade, property rights and the dynamics of environmental resources

Chichilnisky, Graciela (1994): North-South trade, property rights and the dynamics of environmental resources. Published in: The Environment after Rio: International Law and Economics (1994): pp. 205-233.

Abstract

The theory of trade based on differential property rights presented here initiated in Chichilnisky (1991), based on the North-South model introduced in Chichilnisky (1981, 1986). The model and the results in this paper differ however from the previous work in that the dynamics of the renewable resource is crucial to our arguments, while all the other pieces consider instead static economies. The distinctive feature of this paper is that we consider the dynamics of the renewable resource which is used as an input to production, and how this varies with different property rights regimes.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: gains from trade; environmental resources; property rights; international trade
• Subjects: P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P14 - Property Rights; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade; H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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