Resumo

GALLEGOS, Alberto  e  REGIBEAU, Pierre. Comercio estratégico y políticas ambientales para las industrias oligopólicas. El trimestre econ [online]. 2008, vol.75, n.298, pp.317-348.  Epub 20-Nov-2020. ISSN 2448-718X.

In this paper we address the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels with a mechanism where trade policy provides the home government with a credible threat that influence firm’s strategic behaviour to adopt cleaner technologies. The government has a greater incentive to protect a clean industry than to protect a very polluting one. In that sense a locally polluted open economy with an imperfectatly competitive market structure is likely to reduce pollution emissions more than under an autarky regime. A commitment to free trade would be counter-productive: it would remove the government’s ability to credibly threaten lower levels of protection. We show that any trade liberalisation could decrease the home country’s welfare.

Palavras-chave : administración comercial; liberación comercial; contaminación local.