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Are Visegrad Countries Pollution Havens?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 72
This book aims to contribute to the topical debate
over the impact of environmental regulation on
international competitiveness and the location of
polluting industries. Focusing on four Central
European transition countries (Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), this book employs
two simple methodological approaches to investigate
whether there are any indications of occurring
specialization of these economies in pollution-
intensive industries. First, the shares of dirty
industries within the Foreign Direct Investment
mixes in individual countries are examined. Second,
individual countries’ export specialization in
pollution-intensive industries is assessed by
applying the Revealed Comparative Advantage
approach. The outcomes of the analysis are discussed
in the context of the popular 'pollution haven'
hypothesis. The book thus provides a useful insight
to the problems related to the finding of optimal
balance between environmental regulation and
international economic competitiveness and, as such,
can be of interest for decision makers,
environmental policy experts, as well as the
concerned public.
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