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Policy Endogeneity and the Effects of Trade on the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Brian R. Copeland
Brian R. Copeland*
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Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Abstract

This paper reviews recent work on the implications of endogenous policy for the effects of trade on the environment and the sustainability of renewable resource stocks. A recognition that pollution policy is endogenous has had a major impact on the trade and environment literature and has reversed some of the previously established empirical findings. Work on pollution has proceeded faster than work on renewable resources. I suggest some directions for future work in this area.

Keywords

pollutioninternational trade and the environmentrenewable resourcesglobalization
Type
Invited Paper
Information
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , April 2005 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © 2005 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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