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Trade in pollutive industries and the stringency of environmental regulations

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  • Matthias Busse
  • Magdalene Silberberger

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This article analyses the impact of trade in pollution-intensive industries on the stringency of environmental regulation. Using system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) regressions for a panel of 92 countries and the period 1998 to 2007, we find that an increase in net exports of pollution-intensive goods leads to a lowering of the stringency of environmental regulations.

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  • Matthias Busse & Magdalene Silberberger, 2013. "Trade in pollutive industries and the stringency of environmental regulations," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(4), pages 320-323, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:20:y:2013:i:4:p:320-323
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.695068
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