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It is widely known that significant in-sample evidence of predictability does not guarantee significant out-of-sample predictability. This is often interpreted as an indication that in-sample evidence is likely to be spurious and should be discounted. In this Paper we question this conventional...
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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 … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …
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that less informed states enjoyed faster declines in pollution after the 1970 Clean Air Act centralized environmental …
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We use a North-South model with property right differences and resource dynamics to study the effects of trade on resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile, and the result is reversed when the environment is...
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water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …
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reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …
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The current Paper addresses the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels. The main focus is quite … different from the previous literature. The mechanism linking pollution and trade is that trade provides the home government … that sense, the existence of trade helps reduce domestic pollution compared to what would prevail in a situation of autarky …
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The ‘pollution haven’ hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, the environmental standards of the host countries and pollution intensities of … 24 transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the ‘pollution haven’ hypothesis, but the …
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. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in US industry influences the pattern of international trade … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …
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This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership effects and this performance link using an unbalanced...
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