International Trade and Environmental Regulation

Authors

Qingru TuFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Economics

First Advisor's Name

Kaz Miyagiwa

First Advisor's Committee Title

Co-Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Cem Karayalcin

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Co-Committee Chair

Third Advisor's Name

Jesse Bull

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fourth Advisor's Name

Mahadev Bhat

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Keywords

International Trade, Port Ownership, Port Privatization

Date of Defense

6-25-2018

Abstract

This dissertation is composed of three chapters regarding international trade and environmental regulation. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between port ownership and the port R\&D investment. I investigate whether a larger degree of private involvement in the port sector makes for a higher level of welfare, as well as an improvement in port performance. I establish the stage games to analyze the reciprocal international trade. The theoretical findings indicate that the endowment of population plays an essential role in choosing the optimal port ownership. In the second chapter, I investigate the effect of port pollution regulation on port ownership. I incorporate the regulation tax on emissions from port cargo handling into the international duopoly trade model. The results of the stage games suggest the same ownership of the ports in both countries. I also extend the categories of port structures to include the transfer of port ownership to the other country. The policy implication is to have the small country own both ports, which is opposite to the port governance in reality. In the third chapter, I explore the equilibrium port ownership structures without other policy issues or regulation on the port sector being considered. The influence of country size per se suggests that a small country should privatize its port in the context of a privatized port in the large country. For a large country, it is better to choose a type of ownership different from the small country's. In addition, it is the country whose population is greater than a third of the scale in the other country that should own both ports.

Identifier

FIDC006909

Recommended Citation

Tu, Qingru, "International Trade and Environmental Regulation" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3727.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3727