Pollution halos and free-entry

Luis Gautier ()
Additional contact information
Luis Gautier: University of Texas at Tyler

Economics Bulletin, 2018, vol. 38, issue 1, 129-135

Abstract: There is an important number of countries where local content requirements and carbon pricing policies are employed to address environmental degradation and develop industry. The literature has somewhat explored the role of emission taxes and local content requirements on the reduction (increase) of emissions (foreign direct investment), but not the effects on total income. I derive conditions under which laxer local content requirements and negligible adjustments in taxation reduce (increase) total emissions (income) as long as (i) free-entry effects are large and (ii) foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a large share of income. However, adjustments in the emission tax do not necessarily yield analogous results even in the presence of large entry incentives for FDI. The analysis contributes to the literature which examines the role of environmental policy on free-entry markets.

Keywords: Pollution halos; Free-entry; FDI; Local Content; Emission Tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O2 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01-24
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2018/Volume38/EB-18-V38-I1-P13.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-17-00442

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().