Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Arbeitspapier

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the implementation of more stringent regulations in Romania has indeed affected its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or its components (pollution intensive trade and pollution intensive trade related to non-resource-based trade).

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5029

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
• Thema: Environmental stringency ; competiveness ; gravity model ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Außenwirtschaft ; Internationaler Wettbewerb ; Gravitationsmodell ; Schätzung ; Rumänien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Caporale, Guglielmo Maria ; Rault, Christophe ; Sova, Robert ; Sova, Anamaria
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36966
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ