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International Agreements Location: D-104 Session Chair: Sarah Spycher, ETH Zurich | |
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Free Trade Agreements and the Environment 1: King's University College at Western University, Canada; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada We study how the scope of international agreements shapes environmental policy coordination and participation when pollution arises from emissions-intensive production and damages are transboundary. Using a tractable theoretical model with endogenous environmental policy choice and stable agreement formation, we compare shallow agreements that liberalize trade with deep agreements that also coordinate environmental regulation. Deeper coordination improves environmental efficiency by reducing inefficient policy substitution across instruments, but it can raise participation costs for pollution-intensive producers. As a result, deeper agreements reshape the composition of cooperation without necessarily expanding participation and may induce exclusion or self-exclusion even when coordination is welfare improving. The analysis highlights participation constraints as a central consideration in the design of trade-linked environmental cooperation. | |