governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …

In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …

The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to … environmental regulation on inbound FDI in pollution-intensive sectors, particularly when measured by employment, and (iii) larger …

investments in education quality are needed for better enabling green technological innovation and adaptation and reducing …

Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from …