and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our … expenses incurred to satisfy these regulations, such as investment in pollution abatement capital, is unproductive in terms of … paper we construct a model which explicitly recognizes the difference between pollution abatement capital and "productive …

's perspective, even if the cost of preventing pollution was lower than the cost of the health damages produced. We then examine why …

indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …

We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality … are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced … effects on ``alert'' dates when air quality is listed as harmful to the general population. The effect of pollution …

This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard … Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …

The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, environmental standard of the host countries and pollution intensity of the … transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the 'pollution haven' hypothesis, but the overall …