Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; de Melo, Jaime - 2012
This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components-a "deep … pollution haven effect which increases the PCI of the North because of stricter environmental regulations in the North. At the …