This paper examines the role of a firm's internal network in determining plant shutdown decisions in response to environmental regulations. Using unique plant-level data for U.S. manufacturing industries from 1990 to 2008, we find evidence that, in response to increasingly stringent...

This paper examines the effect of water pollution regulation on polluters' exporting decisions and exporting structure. Using detailed firm-by-product level dataset, we employ a difference-in-differences model to identify the causal relationship between environmental regulation and firms'...