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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 …
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regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
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-state ecological equilibria. Under shallow-lake dynamics (SLD), the isocline for the stock of pollution features two stable branches, a …
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different way than M&As. We find robust support for pollution haven hypothesis for polluting Greenfields. M&A investments in low …
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Oates and Schwab (1988) consider an economy with mobil capital and jurisdictions that suffer from local pollution. They …
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Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
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In a domestic market, a duopoly produces a homogeneous final good, pollution, pollution abatement and R&D. One of the … firms (foreign) has superior technology. The government regulates the duopoly by levying a pollution tax to maximize …
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instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions. The setup is the basic stochastic … neoclassical growth model augmented with the assumptions that pollution occurs as a by-product of output produced and environmental …-best policy instruments. We find that, in all cases studied, pollution permits are the worst policy choice, even when their …
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We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...
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This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
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