added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in the U.S. industry … equilibrium model to study the likely compositional effect of a NAFTA on pollution in Mexico … Mexico. In Section 1. we use comparable measures of three air pollutants in a cross-section of urban areas located in 42 …

.5 million used cars have been exported from the United States to Mexico. Using a unique, vehicle-level dataset, we find that … traded vehicles are dirtier than the stock of vehicles in the United States and cleaner than the stock in Mexico, so trade …

This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although … we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at … pattern of US foreign investment is skewed towards industries with high costs of pollution abatement, the results are not …

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

's perspective, even if the cost of preventing pollution was lower than the cost of the health damages produced. We then examine why …

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 …

We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality … are negatively related to local air pollution after a monitoring station appears nearby, with particularly pronounced … effects on ``alert'' dates when air quality is listed as harmful to the general population. The effect of pollution …

This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard … Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …

The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, environmental standard of the host countries and pollution intensity of the … transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the 'pollution haven' hypothesis, but the overall …