dc.contributor.author | Fæhn, Taran | |
dc.contributor.author | Holmøy, Erling | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-26T20:26:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-26T20:26:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/179935 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
This paper assesses effects of the last decade’s multinational liberalisation of foreign trade, in terms of economic gains and in terms of pollution. By means of a disaggregated intertemporal CGE model for Norway two scenarios with and without the trade reforms are compared. Despite a slight decrease in GDP, emissions of several pollutants rise significantly. This is partly attributable to a modest increase in aggregate welfare, as polluting consumption rise significantly along with reduced labour effort. Further, the trade reforms, in combination with existing policy concessions, result in a long-run structural change in favour of heavy-polluting export industries. As these are large consumers of electricity, prices of clean hydropower rise and cause an economy-wide substitution towards more pollutive energy sources.
Keywords: Trade Reforms; Welfare; Environment; Intertemporal CGE Model | no_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | no_NO |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway, Research Department | no_NO |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 298 | |
dc.subject | Trade reforms | no_NO |
dc.subject | Welfare | no_NO |
dc.subject | Environment | no_NO |
dc.subject | Emissions | no_NO |
dc.subject | Norway | no_NO |
dc.subject | Computable general equilibrium model (CGE model) | no_NO |
dc.title | Trade liberalisation and effects on pollutive emissions and waste : a general equilibrium assessment for Norway | no_NO |
dc.type | Working paper | no_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | no_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 29 s. | no_NO |