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Does lax environmental regulation attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2008 - This draft: August 2008
This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting … taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD … between FDI and environmental stringency, once we correct for endogeneity and spatial dependence. The evidence of a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976844
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The causal effect of trade liberalization on the environment
Onwachukwu, Chinedu Increase; Yan, Isabel Kit‐Ming; … - 2021
This study investigated the effect of trade liberalization on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. The exogenous reduction in trade restrictions due to countries' accession to the World Trade Organization is used as a measure of trade liberalization. Using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216530
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Can R&D-Inducing Green Tariffs Replace International Environmental Regulations?
Naghavi, Alireza - 2014
This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global pollution than harmonization of environmental standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709724
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Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Trade Obligations : A Theoretical Analysis of the Doha Proposal
Naghavi, Alireza - 2014
The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In other words, it pushed to authorize the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066080
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Pollution havens : international empirical evidence using a shadow price measure of climate policy stringency ; conference paper
Hille, Erik - 2014
Given the ambiguous empirical results of previous research, this paper tests whether support for a climate policy induced pollution haven effect and the pollution haven hypothesis can be found. Unlike the majority of previous studies, the analysis is based on international panel data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489296
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Environmental Regulation : An Incentive for FDI
Dijkstra, Bouwe; Mathew, Anuj; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2006
regulation attracts investment from polluting firms. We show that a firm may want to relocate to a country with stricter … environmental regulation, when the move raises its rival's cost by sufficiently more than its own. We model a Cournot duopoly with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054268
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The … study not only considers the stringency but also the enforcement of environmental regulations when measuring the degree of … in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704340
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The … study not only considers the stringency but also the enforcement of environmental regulations when measuring the degree of … in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114612
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Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Wagner, Ulrich J.; Timmins, Christopher - 2013
Does environmental regulation impair international competitiveness of pollution-intensive industries to the extent that … they relocate to countries with less stringent regulation, turning those countries into "pollution havens"? We test this … hypothesis using panel data on outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows of various industries in the German manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217827
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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016391