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The Environment ; Pollution Haven Effect ; Factor Endowment Effect …This paper tackles the "pollution haven" argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then …) a factor endowment component and (iii) a "pollution haven" component reflecting the impact of differences in …
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recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs’ net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …
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The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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markets behind the relationship between exports and pollution. In this paper we argue that because consumers in high … environment are not high. Using a panel of firm-level data from Chile we find support to this hypothesis. A 10 percentage point … increase in the share of exports to high-income countries is associated with a reduction in CO2 pollution intensity of about 16 …
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has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions …
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strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade … little evidence that differences in environmental policies across countries have led to significant "pollution havens". Trade …
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To quantify the growth in GHG emissions related to international trade, we build an extensive database for export-related production and transportation GHG emissions covering 189 countries and 10 sectors from 1990 to 2014. We employ this database to quantify the contribution of production and...
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Although based on theoretical foundations, the pollution haven hypothesis has never been clearly proven empirically. In … part of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Finally, we show that the pollution haven hypothesis is confirmed … in the strongest manner for emerging economies. -- FDI ;Environmental Regulation ; Economic Geography ; Pollution Haven …
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This paper addresses the issue of whether the powers of monitoring compliance and allocating tradeable emissions allowances within a federation of countries should be appointed to a unique federal regulator or decentralized to several local regulators. To this end, we develop a two stage game...
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