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Trade, environment and market access: policy reforms in a small open economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2013

Shinya Kawahara
Shinya Kawahara*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Economics, Rissho University, 4-2-16 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8602, Japan. E-mail: kawahara@ris.ac.jp
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Abstract

This paper investigates how market access and welfare are affected by piecemeal reforms of tariffs and pollution taxes in a small open economy. By constructing a general equilibrium model of international trade, which is extended to allow production-generated pollution, we characterize conditions under which a tariff reform and a pollution tax reform increase the value of the small country's imports. It is shown that uniform proportional cuts in tariffs that increase welfare do not necessarily improve market access, and the Ju–Krishna rule of tariff reforms that improves market access does not necessarily increase welfare. A reduction in all pollution distortions proportional to their degree of distortion can be shown to improve both welfare and market access.

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Research Article
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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 173 - 181
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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