Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154819 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 56.1997
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We compare the instantaneous and the long run effects of environmental reform in closed and open economies. Harmonization upward (decreasing distortions where they are most severe) or harmonization downward (increasing distortions where they are less severe), both tend to increase instantaneous world welfare. Environmental reform in a country with less severe distortions works against harmonization and may decrease welfare. Harmonization upward has more beneficial long-run effects than harmonization downward, and also provides higher expected instantaneous benefits if the current stock is uncertain. In the short run there is a conflict between environmental protection and reduction of unemployment, but in the long run the two goals are consistent.
Subjects: 
International trade and the environment
environmental policy reform
international harmonization of environmental policies
environmental dynamics and trade
JEL: 
Q20
F10
H23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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