This research presents first empirical time series evidence of the impact of international trade on environmental quality in the case of transition countries. The linkages between international trade and environmental quality are well established both theoretically and empirically in the...

This study is based on the literature started by Frankel and Romer (1999) on using instruments for predicted trade to analyze its effect on growth. It uses panel data to better control for possible time-invariant characteristics. The fall of communism is used as an exogenous shock to the system....