The Economics of Pollution Havens

by Don Fullerton

A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when trade rules allow firms to relocate and still sell their products to the same customers. This cohesive volume analyzes how country characteristics determine environmental rules, how those rules affect production costs, trade, and investment flows, how those flows affect pollution, prices, and incomes, and finally how all of these last...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845425359
• ISBN13: 9781845425357
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 424 Pages