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Commerce international et accès terrestre libre aux ressources renouvelables dans une petite économie ouverte .
Author(s) -
Jinji Naoto
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2006.00370.x
Subject(s) - stock (firearms) , natural resource economics , small open economy , deforestation (computer science) , economics , liberalization , renewable resource , open economy , business , international economics , resource (disambiguation) , international trade , renewable energy , market economy , monetary economics , ecology , geography , computer network , archaeology , exchange rate , computer science , biology , programming language
In this paper, I investigate the effects of trade liberalization and policies on deforestation by extending a small open economy model with open‐access renewable resources developed by Brander and Taylor (1997a). I endogenize the carrying capacity of the resource. I find, unlike Brander and Taylor, that trade liberalization may increase the forest stock in the resource‐abundant country and may decrease the forest stock in the resource‐scarce country. Moreover, the policies primarily aimed at protecting forests, such as import restrictions by importing countries and forest certification for well‐managed forests, may have perverse effects on the forest stock.