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| Takeshi Iida and Kenji Takeuchi |
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| ''Environmental Technology Transfer via Free Trade'' |
| ( 2010, Vol. 30 No.2 ) |
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| This paper considers a model of international duopoly with global pollution to investigate the impact of tariff policy and
licensing contracts on environmental technology transfer. Our main finding is that free trade is not always preferable.
When the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) is within a certain range, there is a possibility that the total
world welfare is higher under a positive tariff rate than under a zero tariff rate.
This implies that the protection of IPR being beyond the range is a prerequisite for the justification of free trade.
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| Keywords: Environmental technology transfer, Free trade, Tariff protection, Licensing
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JEL: Q5 - Environmental Economics: General
L1 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets |
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| Manuscript Received : Dec 22 2009 | | Manuscript Accepted : Apr 01 2010 |
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