This paper uses Wirl’s [Wirl, F., 1995. The exploitation of fossil fuel under the threat of global warming and carbon taxes: A dynamic game approach. Environmental and Resource Economics, 5, 333–352.] model designed to analyze the long-term bilateral interdependence between a resource-exporting cartel and a coalition of resource-importing country governments for investigating under what conditi...

Based on the assumption that in a standard eco-dumping model governments are uncertain about future product demand and allowing governments to obtain information from firms, we examine governments' and firms' incentives to share information. We show that when governments regulate polluting firms through emission standards, then governments and firms will reach an agreement concerning informatio...

This study sets out to capture the effect that environmental policy has on trade and specifically then examining the notion that lax environmental regulations will constitute a basis of comparative advantage, causing the least regulated jurisdictions to specialize in polluting industries. This is done partly by a survey of the empirical literature on this subject and partly by performing an eco...

Environmental monitoring and inspection by government agency is leading factor for firms’ environmental behavior and their environmental performance. China is always criticized for weak enforcement of environmental laws and policies. During its 11 five-year plan (2006-2010), the Chinese central government launched a state-monitored key firm program to enhance environmental monitoring and inspec...

There has been considerable controversy over the empirical significance of the theoretically predicted pollution haven hypothesis. Generally, empirical papers have failed to find an effect on industrial location of weaker or stricter environmental regulations. In this paper we find strong confirmation of theoretical predictions. We present a statistical test of the impact of environmental regul...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Some microorganisms, mainly members of two genera including Pseudomonas and Mycobacterium, were found to be capable of transforming and degrading of polluting agents. We herein report the isolation of a few mycobacteria with the ability to biodegrade organic and inorganic compounds from water supplies of Iranian hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS The water samples were...

A debate is currently ongoing in the UK regarding the need to collect and report data at the regional level. One specific area of this debate is the extent to which region-specific economic and environmental data are required to carry out analyses of devolved sustainability policy issues. In this paper I use the Jersey economy as a case study to assess the added precision that is gained from us...