This paper analyzes the impact of tariff liberalization and foreign direct investment on pollution from a plant-level perspective. It considers how globalization impacts plant-level investment in pollution abatement expenditure. Popular hypotheses on trade and pollution cite the pollution haven...

This book links the environment and corruption with China's large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). It investigates the effects of economic development and foreign investment on pollution in China; the effects of corruption and governance quality on FDI location choice in China.

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade in goods and the factors and the environment. Traditional approaches based on the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model and more recent models looking at non-competetive market structures are discussed. Moreover, the paper...