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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

Berger, Daniel - 2010

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando - 2012

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101512

Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021

measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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Globalization and Dirty Industries : Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie; de Melo, Jaime - 2021

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on production and international trade flows in five heavily polluting industries for 52 countries over the period 1981-98. A new decomposition of revealed comparative advantage...

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Trade, Growth and the Environment

Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2022

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …

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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...

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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations

Fisman, Raymond J. - 2014

We study the impact of nationalism and interstate frictions on international economic relations by analyzing market reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer relative declines during each event window; a symmetric...

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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

Currie, Janet - 2011

We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...

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What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2010

This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...

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