Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmental quality, or to environmental polarization in which the 'greening' of the global North is accompanied by the...

The spatial unbundling of parts production and assembly currently characterizes globalization, leading to the worldwide dispersion of pollution. We consider socially optimal (cooperative) environmental taxes in a two-country model of global value chains in which the location of both parts and...

This paper examines the impact of five globalization variables on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions in Europe from 1980-2000 in the framework of one empirical model. The spatial autoregressive regression model is estimated using 2SLS. The five variables of interest are trade, foreign...

In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...

This paper explores the relationship between economic globalisation and environmental quality by incorporating institutions as the determinant of this relationship for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study deploys the technique of generalised methods of moments to assess data spanning the period...

This study investigated the relationship between political risk and green innovation utilizing data from 128 countries worldwide from the period 1984-2020. First, we find that accompanying political risk reduction positively promotes green technology improvement, and this still holds after a...

This research investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on renewable energy innovation, based on a panel of 22 countries during the period 1985-2019. The results indicate that economic policy uncertainty exerts a positive effect on renewable energy innovation that lasts for at least...

In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the COVID-19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...

The cement industry is a capital intensive, energy consuming, and vital industry for sustaining infrastructure of nations. The international cement market – while constituting a small share of world industry output—has been growing at an increasing rate relative to local production in recent...

The last twenty five years witnessed an exponential development of science and technology that covers each and every area of human activity from Internet to 3D printing and from nanotechnology and graphene to the use of stem cell for producing viable replacements for the human body. The speed of...