An Empirical Multi‐Country Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Trade Flows

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, J.C.J.M. van den

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“…van Beers and van den Bergh (2000) argue that useful information is lost in a multilateral framework because of aggregation; hence, a bilateral approach is preferable to a multilateral analysis. Further, previous studies, for example, Ederington, Levinson and Minier 2003;Gamper-Rabindran 2004, follow Grossman andKrueger's (1993) HOV framework and express net exports of each sector as a function of the labour, capital and pollution intensity of that sector.…”

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“…A majority of studies use 'input oriented' measures of environmental stringency, such as industrial or firm level pollution abatement costs (Ederington and Minier 2001;Levinson and Taylor 2004). 28 van Beers and van den Bergh (1997) argue that input oriented measures might not accurately reflect the state of environmental stringency in a country if governments compensate the pollution-intensive industries by providing them financial assistance in the form of subsidies, export rebates, etc. They, therefore, propose to use 'output oriented' measures that capture the ultimate outcome of environmental regulations and use a regulatory indicator developed by the UNCTAD, which relies on self-reporting by national governments, as a proxy for environmental governance.…”

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Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

Qureshi¹

2008

Globalization and the Poor in Asia

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This paper revisits the pollution haven hypothesis in the context of Pakistan by offering a systematic analysis of its trade and production patterns. Using bilateral trade statistics from 1975-2003, we test the hypotheses that Pakistan's net exports of pollutionintensive products have increased to the OECD countries. We also investigate if the stringency of environmental governance in the importing countries plays a role in determining Pakistan's exports of pollution-intensive products. The results reveal that there has been a change in the composition of output and exports towards pollutionintensive manufacturing that parallels the opening of the economy. Overall, the findings appear to be in favour of the pollution haven hypothesis and call for effective environmental policy response for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

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Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

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2008

Globalization and the Poor in Asia

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“…Especially economists can make use of the latter type of indicators, for instance, in studies of the impacts of differences in environmental regulations among countries on international trade flows and plant location decisions by multinationals (see van Beers and van den Bergh, 1997).…”

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“…The literature on activity and policy indicators is less rich. Van Beers and van den Bergh (1997) have attempted to quantify environmental policy through various indicators. Goff (1996) offers some methodological considerations for formulating aggregate indicators of policy.…”

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Constructing aggregate environmental-economic indicators: a comparison of 12 OECD countries

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Veen-Groot

2001

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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“…Examples include energy intensity (Cole and Elliot, 2003;Van Beers andVan den Bergh, 1997, Harris et al, 2003), state compliance with environmental standards (McConnell and Schwab, 1990), and pollutant emission intensity (Smarzynska and Wei, 2004). Brunel and Levinson (2013) themselves follow this approach, proposing a measure of actual pollution intensity relative to what could be expected given the country's industrial structure.…”

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Environmental Policies and Productivity Growth

2013

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03348802Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. ECO/WKP(2013) The economic effects of environmental policies are of central interest to policymakers. The traditional approach sees environmental policies as a burden on economic activity, at least in the short to medium term, as they raise costs without increasing output and restrict the set of production technologies and outputs. In contrast, the Porter Hypothesis claims that well-designed environmental policies can provide a 'free lunch' -encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take place. The results are ambiguous, in particular as many of the studies are fragile and context-specific, impeding the generalisation of conclusions. Practical problems related to data, measurement and estimation strategies are discussed, leading to suggestions how they can be addressed in future research. These include: improving the measurement of environmental policy stringency; investigating into effects of different types of instruments and details of instrument design; exploiting cross-country variation; and the complementary use of different levels of aggregation. *********************************88 JEL classification codes Politiques environnementales et croissance de la productivité -un examen critique des résultats empiriquesLes effets économiques des politiques environnementales revêtent un intérêt crucial pour les responsables de l'action publique. Suivant l'approche classique, les politiques environnementales sont considérées comme un fardeau pour l'activité économique, au moins dans une perspective de court à moyen terme, étant donné qu'elles entraînent une hausse des coûts sans pour autant faire augmenter la production et qu'elles limitent l'éventail des technologies de production et des produits. À l'inverse, suivant l'hypothèse de Porter, des politiques environnementales judicieusement conçues peuvent procurer des avantages sans contrepartie, en encourageant l'innovation et en débouchant sur des gains de rentabilité et de productivité qui peuvent l'emporter sur les coûts des politiques considérées. Nous examinons dans ce document de travail les données empiriques relatives à la relation existant entre la rigueur des politiques environnementales et la croissance de la productivité, ainsi que les différents canaux via lesquels les effets considérés peuvent se produire. Les résultats de cet examen sont ambigus, notamment dans la mesure où de nombreuses études sont fragiles et spécifiquement liées à un contexte donné, ce qui ne permet pas d'en généraliser les conclusions. Des p...

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An Empirical Multi‐Country Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Trade Flows

Cited by 206 publications

References 8 publications

Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

Constructing aggregate environmental-economic indicators: a comparison of 12 OECD countries

Environmental Policies and Productivity Growth

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