The Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Significance and Insignificance
| dc.creator | Kellogg, Ryan | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T18:29:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:34:36Z | |
| dc.description | Theory and intuition tell us that the imposition of stringent environmental policies by a given country will reduce its net exports of commodities produced using pollution-intensive industries. It is therefore surprising that many empirical studies of international commodity trade have failed to find evidence of this effect. This study offers a new, highly focused test of the pollution haven hypothesis, by investigating the link between international factor trade in coal and urban air concentrations of SO2. I find statistically significant evidence that countries with poor air quality do have higher net factor exports of coal; however, the magnitude of the impact is small, casting doubt on the economic significance of the pollution haven effect as a guide to policy. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.21191 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21191/files/sp06ke01.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21191 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/535541 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21191 | |
| dc.title | The Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Significance and Insignificance | |
| dc.type | Text |