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| Title: | Can technology transfer induce the south to sign international environmental agreements? |
| Authors: | Qiu, Larry Dongxiao
Yu, Zhihao |
| Keywords: | Trade and environment
Environmental technology transfer
Imperfect competition |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Abstract: | We develop a North-South model of international trade and transboundary pollution to analyze the relationship between environmental technology transfer and the South's incentive to sign an international environmental agreement (IEA). First, we show that technology transfer could either increase or reduce the South's incentive to sign the IEA. Second, we show that the South's participation in the IEA would reduce the market incentive of technology transfer. Both results have very clear policy implications for (i) the sequence of technology transfer and the South's IEA membership and (ii) the legitimacy of South's subsidies for technology transfer. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/121 |
| Appears in Collections: | ECON Working Papers
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