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 …

noncompliant counties. Third, yields are substantially higher for bonds from counties just above the pollution threshold relative …

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution …

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 …

We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to … public or private citizen appeals treatments when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First …, public appeals to the regulator through social media substantially reduce violations and pollution emissions, while private …