We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999–2005 from more than 100 …

in both years). Undercharging for global warming accounts for 22 percent of the subsidy in 2013, air pollution 46 percent … fuel air pollution deaths 55 percent, while raising revenue of 4 percent, and social welfare by 2.2 percent, of global GDP …

A demographic transition resulting from an increase in the size of the young working age population can be a blessing … or a curse for economic performance. We focus on the political stability effects of a larger youth population and …, we find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population (17-25 years old) within the …

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …