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An Account of Pollution Emission Embodied in Global Trade: PGT1 and PGT2 Database

Honma, Satoshi; Yoshida, Yushi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

For the period between 1988 and 2009, we constructed the two sets of the world panel database for the pollution emission embedded in international trade. By applying the time-invariant common pollution intensity at industry level for international trade of over 150 countries, a change in...

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An Empirical Investigation of the Balance of Embodied Emission in Trade:Industry Structure and Emission Abatement

Honma, Satoshi; Yoshida, Yushi - Faculty of Economics, Kyushu Sangyo University - 2012

Using the world panel dataset for the pollution emission embedded in international trade of 132 countries for the period between 1988 and 2008, we investigate whether the balance of embodied emission in trade (BEET) is consistent with the implication of pollution haven hypothesis. By using two...

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The Dilemma of Minerals Dependent Economy: The case of Foreign Direct Investment and Pollution in Nigeria

Kingston, Kato Gogo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

illustrates that the impact of oil and natural gas exploration on the Nigerian environment is persistent in the long-run. The …

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Consumer waste, backhauling, and pollution havens

Kellenberg, Derek - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 283-304

Pollution havens have received a great deal of attention in the past 15 years. However, the literature has focused almost exclusively on production side externalities and whether dirty industry migrates to countries with lax environmental laws. More recently, concerns have been raised about the...

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Environmental Aspects of Resource Extraction Contracts

Krings, Hanna - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

by introducing incomplete contracts, imperfect property rights protection, and a lack of valuation for the environment by …

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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment …

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Domestic Incentive Measures for Renewable Energy With Possible Trade Implications

Bahar, Heymi; Egeland, Jagoda; Steenblik, Ronald - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

In recent years the manufacturing of renewable-energy technologies has become truly global. The associated rise in international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been smooth. Already there have been challenges at the...

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Cross-Border Trade in Electricity and the Development of Renewables-Based Electric Power: Lessons from Europe

Bahar, Heymi; Sauvage, Jehan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

The uptake of renewable energy (RE) has been identified by a number of governments as a primary means for mitigating CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, and for making the transition to a low-carbon economy. The electric power output of some RE technologies, however, including those based...

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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Sauvage, Jehan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

This report assesses conceptually and empirically the extent to which the stringency of environmental regulations drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air and water pollution or GHG emissions take the form of...

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Relationship in the Context of Sustainable Development

Timbur, Margareta; Pralea, Spiridon - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 2, pp. 279-299

international trade on the environment, on the one hand, and the impact of environmental policies and regulations on the … with the regulatory powers in international trade – environment relationship which is considered to be GATT/WTO. Although …, the international trade-environment relationship is a very debated internationally, in Romania it is not sufficiently …

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