Dirty Neighbors: Pollution in an Interlinked World

Assessing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in an Interdependent World

After proposing a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the importance of third-country e ects in empirical studies of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, we test the model using statelevel panel data on inbound US FDI and relative abatement costs. Our analysis reveals that while own state attributes rarely have statistically signi cant e ects on own inbound FDI when aggregated over all manufa...

A dirty word or a dirty world?: Attribute framing, political affiliation, and query theory.

We explored the effect of attribute framing on choice, labeling charges for environmental costs as either an earmarked tax or an offset. Eight hundred ninety-eight Americans chose between otherwise identical products or services, where one option included a surcharge for emitted carbon dioxide. The cost framing changed preferences for self-identified Republicans and Independents, but did not af...

Empowering Neighbors versus Imposing Regulations: An Experimental Analysis of Pollution Reduction Schemes*

This paper presents an experimental study of two mechanisms that influence incentives to reduce emissions that increase ambient pollution levels. In the formal mechanism individuals face a penalty if the group generates total pollution that exceeds a specified target, whereas in the informal mechanism individuals can choose to incur costs to punish each other after observing their individual em...

Towards an Interlinked Semantic Wiki Farm

This paper details the main concepts and the architecture of UfoWiki, a semantic wiki farm – i.e. a server of wikis – that uses form-based templates to produce ontology-based knowledge. Moreover, the system allows different wikis to share and interlink ontology instance between each other, so that knowledge can be produced by different and distinct communities in a distributed but collaborative...

light pollution, a world problem