Arbeitspapier

Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

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).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3916

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
Thema
environmental stringency
competitiveness
gravity model

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria
Rault, Christophe
Sova, Robert
Sova, Anamaria
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi
  • Caporale, Guglielmo Maria
  • Rault, Christophe
  • Sova, Robert
  • Sova, Anamaria
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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