Trade and Specialisation in Pollution Intensive Industries: North–South Evidence
Trade and Specialisation in Pollution Intensive Industries: North–South Evidence
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DOI：
10.1080/10168730701529926
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发表时间：
2007-08
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
A. K. Azhar;Robert J. R. Elliott
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作者：
A. K. Azhar;Robert J. R. Elliott
污染避风港假说（PHH）和资本-劳动假说（KLH）认为一国环境法规的相对水平、资本禀赋和劳动力禀赋分别决定一国的比较优势。由于这些假设导致了关于北方还是南方将专注于污染密集型生产的相互矛盾的预测，本文研究了贸易和专业化模式的变化是否允许我们区分污染避风港效应和要素禀赋效应。我们采用了一种方法，使我们能够呈现南北贸易模式随时间的变化，并确定贸易模式与PHH和/或KLH一致的时期，作为进行更详细的计量经济学研究的基础。
Abstract The pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the capital-labour hypothesis (KLH) state that the relative level of a country's environmental regulations and capital and labour endowments determines its comparative advantage respectively. Since these hypotheses lead to conflicting predictions as to whether the North or the South will specialise in pollution-intensive production, this paper examines whether changes in trade and specialisation patterns allow us to distinguish between pollution haven and factor endowment effects. We employ a methodology that enables us to present North-South trade patterns over time and to identify those periods when trade patterns were consistent with either the PHH and/or the KLH as a foundation for undertaking more detailed econometric studies.