Strategic environmental policy; eco-dumping or a green strategy? |
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Authors: | Mads Greaker |
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Institution: | Statistics Norway, P.O. Box 8131 Dep., 0033, Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | The Porter hypothesis claims that a strong environmental policy best serves the interests of a nation's export industry. While this hypothesis seems to be based on some form of bounded rationality, this paper argues that governments may have good reasons for setting an especially strong environmental policy even though firms are fully rational. If the available abatement technology turns the environment into an “inferior input”, competitiveness is spurred by a strong environmental policy. The government should take advantage of this, and set an especially strict emission quota or an especially high emission tax. The findings in the paper also has consequences for the desirability of international cooperation with respect to national environmental policy. If a strict environmental policy spurs competitiveness, the environment is better protected without cooperation. |
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Keywords: | Environmental policy Strategic trade theory |
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