Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (2005)
The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" (PHH) is one of the most hotly debated predictions in all of international economics. This paper explains the theory behind the PHH by dividing the hypothesis into a...
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (2005)
The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" (PHH) is one of the most hotly debated predictions in all of international economics. This paper explains the theory behind the PHH by dividing the hypothesis into a...
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (2005)
The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" (PHH) is one of the most hotly debated predictions in all of international economics. This paper explains the theory behind the PHH by dividing the hypothesis into a...
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (2005)
The "Pollution Haven Hypothesis" (PHH) is one of the most hotly debated predictions in all of international economics. This paper explains the theory behind the PHH by dividing the hypothesis into a...
given to the source. Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality (2002)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose, Edward Parson, Rob Stavins, M. Scott Taylor, Geoffrey Williamson, ...
International Economics seminars, all three at Harvard. Frankel would also like to acknowledge support from the Savitz Family Fund for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy. The views expressed...
RLB:1986-06-18.
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is endogenously determined and explicitly linked to changes in world prices and other...
Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of Theory and Empirics
William A. Brock, M. Scott Taylor
This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth models to help us identify key features generating sustainable growth. We show...
Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of Theory and Empirics
Brock, William A., Taylor, M. Scott, Philippe Aghion, Steven Durlauf
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is, and will always remain, controversial. Some see the emergence of new pollution problems, the lack of success in dealing with global...
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century less than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers over 100 years,...
Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?
Werner Antweiler, Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper investigates how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and...
The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use.
Brander, James A, Taylor, M Scott
This paper presents a general equilibrium model of renewable resource and population dynamics related to the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model, with man as the predator and the resource base as the...
Trade, Growth, and the Environment
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This essay reviews what we currently know about the environmental consequences of economic growth and international trade. Using a unified framework, we critically review both theory and empirical...
Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper demonstrates how several important results in environmental economics, true under mild conditions in closed economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international...
A two-country model of endogenous growth is employed to assess the importance of intellectual property rights to trade, growth, and technology transfer. The paper provides theoretical results linking...
Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect
Arik Levinson, M. Scott Taylor
This paper uses both theory and empirical work to examine the effect of environmental regulations on trade flows. We develop a simple economic model to demonstrate how unobserved heterogeneity,...
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century less than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers over 100 years,...
Trade, Tragedy and the Commons
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons, and hence the de facto property rights regime, is endogenously determined. Three...
UNMASKING THE POLLUTION HAVEN EFFECT
Arik Levinson, M. Scott Taylor
We use theory and empirics to examine the effect of environmental regulations on trade flows. A simple model demonstrates how unobserved heterogeneity, endogeneity, and aggregation issues bias...
TRIPS, Trade, and Technology Transfer.
A North-South model of unintentional technology transfer is developed where the stringency of Southern patent protection provides the institutional backdrop for a strategic game in a high-tech goods...
International Trade and Open-Access Renewable Resources: The Small Open Economy Case.
James A. Brander, M. Scott Taylor
The authors examine a small open economy with an open-access renewable resource. Using a two-sector general equilibrium model, they characterize the autarkic steady state and then show that trade...
"Once-off" and Continuing Gains from Trade.
This paper employs a dynamic Ricardian trade model to provide a decomposition of the gains from trade into 'once-off' and continuing categories. In one version of the model, trade is always welfare...
Trade and Transboundary Pollution.
Copeland, Brian R, Taylor, M Scott
This paper examines how national income and trading opportunities interact to determine the level and incidence of world pollution. The authors find that free trade raises world pollution if incomes...
The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding of the basic science involved and very limited data. Because of these...
North-South Trade and the Environment.
Copeland, Brian R, Taylor, M Scott
A simple static model of North-South trade is developed to examine linkages between national income, pollution, and international trade. Two countries produce a continuum of goods, each differing in...
International Trade and Open Access Renewable Resources: The Small Open Economy Case
James A. Brander, M. Scott Taylor
This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model of an economy with an open access renewable resource. We characterize the autarkic steady state, showing that autarky prices (and...
Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
We develop a simple two-sector dynamic model to examine the effects of international trade in the presence of pollution-created cross- sectoral production externalities. We assume that the production...
Open Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a Two-CountryModel
James A. Brander, M. Scott Taylor
This paper develops a two-good, two-country model with national open access renewable resources. We derive an appropriate analog of `factor proportions' for the renewable resource case and link it to...
A Simple Model of Trade, Capital Mobility, and the Environment
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper examines the interaction between relative factor abundance and income-induced policy differences in determining the pattern of trade and the effect of trade liberalization on pollution. If...
International Trade Between Consumer and Conservationist Countries
James Brander, M. Scott Taylor
We consider trade between a consumer' country with an open access renewable resource and a conservationist' country that regulates resource harvesting to maximize domestic steady-state utility. In...
Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?
Werner Antweiler, Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale,...
Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper demonstrates how three important results in environmental economics, true under mild conditions in closed economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade...
International Trade and the Environment: A Framework for Analysis
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical...
The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth
William A. Brock, M. Scott Taylor
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding of the basic science involved and very limited data. Because of these...
Trade, Growth and the Environment
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade. The debate was originally fueled by...
William A. Brock, M. Scott Taylor
We demonstrate that a key empirical finding in environmental economics - The Environmental Kuznets Curve - and the core model of modern macroeconomics - the Solow model - are intimately related. Once...
Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect
Arik Levinson, M. Scott Taylor
This paper uses both theory and empirical work to examine the effect of environmental regulations on trade flows. We develop a simple economic model to demonstrate how unobserved heterogeneity,...
Environmental Crises: Past, Present and Future
Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are difficult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and...
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons
Brian R. Copeland, M. Scott Taylor
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons, and hence the de facto property rights regime, is endogenously determined. Three...
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
The “Pollution Haven Hypothesis” (PHH) is one of the most hotly debated predictions in all of international economics. This paper explains the theory behind the PHH by dividing the hypothesis...