The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the second half of its special issue of The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, on "The Pollution Haven Hypothesis," edited by Don Fullerton of the University of Texas. Do polluter location decisions respond to pollution policies, and do jurisdictions adopt weak environmental regulations to attract industry and jobs? Does trade liberalization affect the incentives of governments to regulate dirty industries? How does the analysis of trade and trade policy vary if pollution is local, regional, or global, and how should regional and global institutions respond? These are just some of the questions addressed in this special issue. To view any of the articles in question, simply click on the links below (full citations and abstracts follow at bottom of message).

Matthew E. Kahn and Yutaka Yoshino "Testing for Pollution Havens Inside and Outside of Regional Trading Blocs".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss2/art4


Pierre M. Regibeau and Alberto Gallegos "Managed Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Local Pollution".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss2/art5


Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson, and Jenny Minier "Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss2/art6


Corrado Di Maria and Sjak A. Smulders "Trade Pessimists vs Technology Optimists: Induced Technical Change and Pollution Havens".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss2/art7


M. Scott Taylor "Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss2/art8


Abay Mulatu, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, and Cees Withagen "Environmental Regulation and International Trade: Empirical Results for Germany, the Netherlands and the US, 1977-1992".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol3/iss2/art5


Randy A. Becker "Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol3/iss2/art6


Carol McAusland "Environmental Regulation as Export Promotion: Product Standards for Dirty Intermediate Goods".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol3/iss2/art7


Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Shang-Jin Wei "Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?".
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol3/iss2/art8

The first batch of articles for this special issue was announced in late 2004. It includes contributions from authors such as John A. List (University of Maryland),

Michael Hoel (University of Oslo), and Hilary Sigman (Rutgers University).

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