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Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...
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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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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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measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …
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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 …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
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pre- World War I, the interwar, and the post-war periods, this paper finds that the Frankel-Romer result is robust to …
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A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries. In this data set, there are over one hundred...
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We construct the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) for an unbalanced panel of 143 individual countries on a quarterly basis …
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I explore whether the world trading system of the twentieth century can be adapted to address the challenges of the …
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