Collaborative Research: Open Economy Environmental EconomicsA Study of International Environmental Linkages and Their Policy Implications

该项目的目的是将现有的对环境问题的经济分析从本质上从国内角度扩展到明确纳入由贸易、金融和环境流动联系在一起的国际经济中出现的问题的角度。这项研究的出发点是一个概述环境服务贸易的国际收益的概念性框架。具体研究议程涉及以下问题：(1)危险废物的国际运输和处置；(2)发展中国家在全球环境管理中的作用；(3)全球环境监管措施的设计和实施；(4)利用贸易措施惩罚和鼓励忽视其经济活动更广泛社会成本的国家的可能性。贯穿这项研究的一个中心主题是世界价格扭曲的重要性及其对实现环境服务贸易潜在收益的影响。

The purpose of this project is to extend the existing economic analysis of environmental problems from an essentially domestic perspective to one that incorporates explicitly the issues arising in an international economy linked by trade, financial, and environmental flows. The point of departure for this research is a general conceptual framework that sets out the international gains from trade in environmental services. The specific research agenda addresses the issues of: (1) the international transport and disposal of hazardous wastes; (2) the role of developing countries in the management of the global environment, (3) the design and implementation of global measures for environmental regulation, and (4) the potential for using trade measures to penalize and provide inducements to countries that ignore the broader social costs of their economic activities. A central theme running through this research is the importance of distortions in world prices and their implications for realizing the potential gains from trade in environmental services.