Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75844 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 594
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The idea that environmental trade policy may be used to achieve competitive advantage in international markets has important implications for the way we conceive tree-trade. This paper reconsiders the issue of strategic environmental policy in a model that makes explicit the vertical structure that supports production of the traded good. We find these intranational vertical relationships to have a substantial qualitative effect on the optimal strategic environmental trade policy. We show that under both quantity and price competition in the international market, the optimal policy to levy on the polluting input when vertical contracts are allowed is a Pigouvian tax.
Subjects: 
strategic trade
vertical contracts
environmental policy
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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