first to systematically investigate the subject using both economic theory and empirical analysis. Brian Copeland and Scott … Taylor establish a powerful theoretical framework for examining the impact of international trade on local pollution levels …

, thereby lowering world pollution. The results also suggest that pollution declines amid economic growth fueled by economy … Policy Differences: Marketable Permit Systems -- 5.3 Endogenous Pollution Havens -- 5.4 Global Pollution and the World ….1 Three Questions That Deserve an Answer -- 7.2 The Pollution Data -- 7.3 Deriving the Reduced Form -- 7.4 From Theory to …

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999-2005 from more than 100 …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …