Environmental Regulations and Korean Trades

Environmental regulations and business decisions

Environmental regulations have greatly improved air and water quality, especially in areas that were dirtiest before regulation. Reducing airborne particulates is especially beneficial, saving thousands of lives and preventing millions of illnesses each year. The potential health benefits may be even greater in developing countries, where pollution levels are high. Proposed reductions in greenh...

Do Environmental Regulations Increase Bilateral Trade Flows?

The argument that stringent environmental regulations are generally thought to harm export flows is crucial when determining policy recommendations related to environmental preservation and international competitiveness. By using bilateral trade data, we examine the relationships between trade flows and various environmental stringency indices. Previous studies have used energy intensity, abate...

The Stringency Of Environmental Regulations And Technological Change: A Specific Test Of The Porter Hypothesis

Environmental Regulations and Manufacturing Plant Exit: A Preliminary Analysis

(EPA), it has not been subject to the Agency's review and therefore does not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency, and no official endorsement should be inferred. We thank the EPA National Center for Environmental Economics working group for helpful comments, Jim Davis at the Boston RDC for his continued help; Wang Jin and Shital Sharma for excellent research assistance; and Diane Fergus...

Environmental Regulations and Corruption: Automobile Emissions in Mexico City

Emission regulations become more prevalent in developing countries; but they may be compromised by corruption. In this paper I document the prevalence of corruption and the effectiveness of vehicle emission regulations in Mexico City. I develop a statistical test for identifying a specific type of cheating that involves bribing center technicians. I also estimate a structural model of car owner...