IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/amposc/v50y2006i2p350-364.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001

Author

Listed:
  • Aseem Prakash
  • Matthew Potoski

Abstract

Globalization critics argue that international trade spurs a race to the bottom among national environmental standards. ISO 14001 is the most widely adopted voluntary environmental regulation which encourages firms to take environmental action beyond what domestic government regulations require. Drawing on a panel study of 108 countries over seven years, we investigate conditions under which trade linkages can encourage ISO 14001 adoption, thereby countering environmental races to the bottom. We find that trade linkages encourage ISO 14001 adoption if countries' major export markets have adopted this voluntary regulation.

Suggested Citation

  • Aseem Prakash & Matthew Potoski, 2006. "Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 50(2), pages 350-364, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:50:y:2006:i:2:p:350-364
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00188.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00188.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00188.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Low, P., 1992. "International Trade and the Environment," World Bank - Discussion Papers 159, World Bank.
    2. Jeffrey A. Frankel, 2003. "The Environment and Globalization," NBER Working Papers 10090, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rothman, Dale S., 1998. "Environmental Kuznets curves--real progress or passing the buck?: A case for consumption-based approaches," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(2), pages 177-194, May.
    2. Indra de Soysa & Jennifer Bailey & Eric Neumayer, 2004. "Free to Squander? Democracy, Institutional Design, and Economic Sustainability, 1975–2000," Macroeconomics 0412004, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique & Roland-Holst, David & Dessus, Sebastien & Beghin, John, 1998. "The interface between growth, trade, pollution and natural resource use in Chile: evidence from an economywide model," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 19(1-2), pages 87-97, September.
    4. Nikos Tsakiris & Panos Hatzipanayotou & Michael S. Michael, 2008. "Pollution, Capital Mobility and Tax Policies with Unemployment," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(2), pages 223-236, May.
    5. World Bank, 2007. "International trade and Climate Change : Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6831.
    6. David Simpson, 2008. "Preventing Biological Invasions: Doing Something vs. Doing Nothing," NCEE Working Paper Series 200811, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, revised Nov 2008.
    7. Zilberman, David & Hochman, Gal & Sexton, Steven E., 2008. "Food Safety, the Environment, and Trade," Agricultural Distortions Working Paper Series 48637, World Bank.
    8. Jeffrey A. Frankel & Andrew K. Rose, 2005. "Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 87(1), pages 85-91, February.
    9. Abbas Rezazadeh Karsalari & Mohsen Mehrara & Maysam Musai & Mosa Mohammadi, 2014. "Relationship between Economic Growth, Trade and Environment: Evidence from D8 Countries," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 4(2), pages 320-326, April.
    10. Faruqee, Rashid, 1997. "Using economic policy to improve environmental protection in Pakistan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1757, The World Bank.
    11. Ian Sheldon, 2006. "Trade and Environmental Policy: A Race to the Bottom?," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(3), pages 365-392, September.
    12. Yan-Leung Cheung & Dongmin Kong & Weiqiang Tan & Wenming Wang, 2015. "Being Good When Being International in an Emerging Economy: The Case of China," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 130(4), pages 805-817, September.
    13. T. Verbeke & M. De Clercq, 2003. "Environmental policy uncertainty, policy coordination and relocation decisions," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 03/208, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
    14. Kaiser, Kai & Schulze, Günther G., 2003. "International Competition and Environmental Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Plants," HWWA Discussion Papers 222, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA).
    15. Abay Mulatu & Raymond J.G.M. Florax & Cees A.A.M. Withagen, 2001. "Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 01-039/3, Tinbergen Institute.
    16. Moliterni, Fabio, 2017. "Sustainability-oriented Business Model Innovation: Context and Drivers," SAS: Society and Sustainability 263484, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    17. M. E. Balatenysheva, 2015. "The role of environmental-economic instruments for the sustainable development of transnational corporations," Russian Journal of Industrial Economics, MISIS, issue 1.
    18. Marta Aloi & Frederic Tournemaine, 2013. "Inequality, growth, and environmental quality tradeoffs in a model with human capital accumulation," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 46(3), pages 1123-1155, August.
    19. Grethe, Harald, 2007. "High animal welfare standards in the EU and international trade - How to prevent potential `low animal welfare havens'?," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 315-333, June.
    20. Edmond Noubissi & Loudi Njoya, 2021. "Women's parliamentary representation and environmental quality in Africa: Effects and transmission channels," Research Africa Network Working Papers 21/100, Research Africa Network (RAN).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:50:y:2006:i:2:p:350-364. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-5907 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.