Im Rahmen der Pollution Haven Hypothese wird davon ausgegangen, dass Länder mit strengen Umweltstandards die Produktion verschmutzungsintensiver Güter in Länder mit weniger strengen Umweltauflagen verlagern. Dies würde für den Standortwettbewerb zwischen Ländern um ausländische...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI spillovers - which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic are inconclusive and most studies focus on one...

The distributional impact of globalization is of great academic interest. This paper traces the progression of theoretical trade models and their ability to explain the differential impact of off-shoring on skill premiums (i.e. skilled-unskilled wage dispersion) in the recipient developing...