Essays in international economics and the environment

Thesis

Chapter One

I consider the influence of foreign environmental policy on domestic manufacturing activity using theory and empirics. A tractable three-country spatial model yields a theory of locational com- parative advantage in the production of pollution-intensive manufactured goods: greater market access to countries with stringent environmental policy encourages output in the polluting sector. Operationalizing the model empirically, I find robust evidence that high mar...

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Authors: Feddersen, J

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: environmental economics; International economics; behavioural economics
• Subjects: International economic relations; Econometrics; Economics; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics--Econometric models