, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade … relationship between international trade, economic growth and the environment? How can this evidence help us evaluate ongoing …

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …

determining the pattern of trade and the effect of trade liberalization on pollution. If a rich and capital abundant North trades … with a poor and labor abundant South, then free trade lowers world pollution. Trade shifts the production of pollution … intensive industries to the capital abundant North despite its stricter pollution regulations. Pollution levels rise in the …

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …

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 identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using … officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during …

exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …

During 2013-2014, China launched a nationwide, real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed … exploiting its staggered implementation across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China's environmental … protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about …