TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Caporale, Guglielmo Maria
AU  - Rault, Christophe
AU  - Sova, Robert
AU  - Sova, Anamaria
        TI  - Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5029
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5029
        AB  - 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).
        KW  - gravity model
KW  - environmental stringency
KW  - competiveness
        ER  -