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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414750
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...
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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283185
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Is free trade good for the environment?
Antweiler, Werner; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 877-908
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Mariani, Fabio - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
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Climate change policy after Kyoto
Metcalf, Gilbert E. (contributor) - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 552-574
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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a … respiratory infection. Using variation in pollution induced by a rollback of enforcement of environmental regulations by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213171
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209