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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …
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measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...
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This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …
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the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
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-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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