This 2004 paper covers an issue of increasing importance in my mind. The failure of Copenhagen and the failure (so far) of the Doha round may in fact be partially explained by the need to bring negotiations on the environment and trade to the same table.
There are a complex set of interactions here and this paper sets the scene.
WTO-Related Matters in Trade and Environment: Relationship Between WTO Rules and MEAs [PDF]
Date: 2010
By: Aparna Sawhney
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2984&r=env
Environmental issues began to be systematically addressed in the WTO following the Decision on Trade and Environment taken towards the end of the Uruguay Round at Marrakesh in 1994. The Committee on Trade and Environment was established in the same year, with the explicit mandate to resolve environmental issues in the trading system. [WTO Research Series No. 5]
Keywords: Environmental, systematically. Trade, Environment,
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Trade, Environmental Regulations and Industrial Mobility
Thursday 7 October 2010
Here is a recent working paper from the nep-env working paper series. This just happens to one of my recent papers. Regulations matter for location.
The paper is forthcoming is the esteemed "Ecological Economics" (August 2010).
Trade, Environmental Regulations and Industrial Mobility:
An Industry-Level Study of Japan
Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Toshihiro Okubo
1 Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK
2 Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, University of Kobe, Japan
Abstract
This paper contributes to the small but growing body of literature which tries to explain why, despite the predictions of some theoretical studies, empirical support for the pollution haven hypothesis remains limited. We break from the previous literature, which tends to concentrate on US trade patterns, and focus on Japan. In common with Ederington et al.’s (2005) US study, we show that pollution haven effects are stronger and more discernible when trade occurs with developing countries, in industries with the greatest environmental costs and when the geographical immobility of an industry is accounted for. We also go one step further and show that our findings relate not only to environmental regulations but also to industrial regulations more generally.
JEL: F18, L51, L60, Q56, R3
Keywords: Environmental regulations, trade, agglomeration, immobility, industry
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The paper is forthcoming is the esteemed "Ecological Economics" (August 2010).
Trade, Environmental Regulations and Industrial Mobility:
An Industry-Level Study of Japan
Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Toshihiro Okubo
1 Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK
2 Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, University of Kobe, Japan
Abstract
This paper contributes to the small but growing body of literature which tries to explain why, despite the predictions of some theoretical studies, empirical support for the pollution haven hypothesis remains limited. We break from the previous literature, which tends to concentrate on US trade patterns, and focus on Japan. In common with Ederington et al.’s (2005) US study, we show that pollution haven effects are stronger and more discernible when trade occurs with developing countries, in industries with the greatest environmental costs and when the geographical immobility of an industry is accounted for. We also go one step further and show that our findings relate not only to environmental regulations but also to industrial regulations more generally.
JEL: F18, L51, L60, Q56, R3
Keywords: Environmental regulations, trade, agglomeration, immobility, industry
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