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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - In: Ecological Economics 81 (2012) C, pp. 130-139

hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly either trade or its components. …

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Fiscal stringency and fiscal sustainability: Panel evidence from the American state and local governments

Mahdavi, Saeid; Westerlund, Joakim - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 33 (2011) 6, pp. 953-969

fiscal stringency. We test this hypothesis for a panel of 47 state–local government units (1961–2006) using four budget …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Pollution Havens

King, John - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 54 (2011) 1, pp. 39-47

data on foreign direct investment flows and environmental stringency for Eastern Europe. Exploiting the panel data … studies. Our results suggest that environmental stringency indeed affects location choice in Eastern Europe. However, weak …

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When Do Firms Shift Production Across State to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Shadbegian, Ronald J.; Gray, Wayne B. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2002

regulation faced by those plants, as measured by differences in stringency across states. We also test whether sensitivity to …'s production during the 1967-1992 period. We use several measures of state environmental stringency and test for interactions … between regulatory stringency and three factors: the firm's overall compliance rate, a Herfindahl index of industry …

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An industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs

Levinson, Arik - 1999

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years, thus facilitating comparisons both among states and...

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BOOK REVIEW of “Statistical Foundations for Econometric Techniques” by Asad Zaman

Swanson, Norman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

This is pre-print of a book review of a graduate econometrics textbook entitled "Statistical Foundations for Econometric Techniques," by Asad Zaman. Four parts of the book cover estimation, testing, asymptotics (first and higher order), and empirical Bayes methods for regression models. Emphasis...

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THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRINGENCY ON THE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS OF THE OECD COUNTRIES

MIHCI, HAKAN; CAGATAY, SELIM; KOSKA, ONUR - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 07 (2005) 04, pp. 679-704

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the environmental stringency on trade and the foreign … environmental stringency has an important impact on the FDI outflows of the OECD countries. The impact of the degree of … environmental stringency on the FDI is significantly positive implying a direct relationship between FDI outflows and relative …

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