'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 …

pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored … key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …

finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …

between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …