Pollution Havens and Industrial Agglomeration
Pollution Havens and Industrial Agglomeration
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.993003
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发表时间：
2006-11
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通讯作者：
Dao‐Zhi Zeng;Lex Zhao
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作者：
Dao‐Zhi Zeng;Lex Zhao
本文利用两国两部门的空间经济模型对污染天堂假说进行了检验。制造业产生跨界污染，这降低了农产品的跨部门生产率，并降低了当地收入。我们得出了一种需求减少效应，在缺乏任何比较优势的情况下，这会阻止企业转移到环境监管较为宽松的国家。我们的分析还表明，制造业集聚力可以缓解污染避风港效应：如果更大的国家的环境监管稍微严格一些，污染避风港可能就不会出现。
This paper examines the pollution haven hypothesis using a spatial-economy model of two countries and two sectors. The manufacturing sector generates cross-border pollution which reduces cross-sectoral productivity of agricultural goods, and lowers local income. We derive a demand-reducing effect that discourages firms to move to the country with laxer environmental regulations, in the absence of any comparative advantage. Our analysis also demonstrates that manufacturing agglomeration forces can alleviate the pollution-haven effect: a pollution haven may not arise if environmental regulation is slightly more stringent in the larger country.