Trade Restrictiveness and Pollution
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Author
Chau, Nancy H.
Fare, Rolf
Grosskopf, Shawna
Abstract
This paper proposes a trade restrictiveness indicator that explicitly incorporates environmental externalities. The index employs directional distance functions and use indicators (i.e. differences rather than ratios) modified to account for and evaluate efficiency changes in the face of simultaneous and multi-dimensional trade and environmental policy reforms. The index is made up of two components, one for production and one for consumption. Our overall trade restrictiveness indicator is accordingly the difference of the two. The properties of the indicator are developed and discussed together with its estimation.
Description
WP 2007-15 September 2007
JEL Classification Codes: F18
Date Issued
2007-09-01
Publisher
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Type
article