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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Export of Dirty Industries in CEE Countries

While many studies have investigated the impact of environmental regulations on export, a much smaller number of studies were based on the impact of environmental regulations on the export of certain industries. There is a trend that transition countries specialize in the production of pollution intensive goods and based on that gain a comparative advantage in the export of these goods (Wilson et al., 2000). The main objective of empirical analysis in this study is to determine what impact environmental regulations have on exports of pollution intensive industries. The analysis uses extended gravity model of trade. As a dependent variable - exports of pollution intensive industries from 15 CEE transition countries to 10 developed EU countries. As independent variables - GDP of selected countries ; the distance between the capitals of the observed number of countries and environmental regulations stringency in exporting countries. Generally, we expect that our results will show that the introduction of stricter environmental regulations in selected CEE countries cause a decline in exports of pollution intensive industries.

environmental economics ; dirty industries ; pollution-intensive industries ; export ; CEE countries

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