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Environmental Taxation Location: D-106 Session Chair: Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta | |
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Regulating Polluting Multinational Enterprises: The Role of Green Technologies 1: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2: University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada Within a context where firms can choose between exporting or engaging in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), this paper examines how domestic environmental regulations are affected by the type of pollutant, i.e., local versus transboundary. We allow firms to choose between clean and dirty technologies in each market they operate in, and endogenize the licensing process to access cleaner technologies. A key finding is that the impact of the type of pollutant on emission tax is industry-specific. In industries with "footloose" firms, we show that taxes for transboundary pollutants are lower than for local pollutants. By contrast, in industries with high fixed costs of setting up foreign subsidiaries, this result is reversed. | |