This article scrutinizes the effects of economic competition on environmental standard levels
in low-regulating states that intensify their economic interlinkage with high-regulating …

The theory of regulatory competition suggests a race to the bottom of environmental
standards. This theory, however, has not found much empirical support. Several attempts to …

Has globalisation led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are
the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies …

Citizens' concerns about (international) environmental protection standards are of
increasing importance to governments in industrially advanced, high-regulating countries. In …

We compare the short-and long-run effects of environmental reform and harmonization
under autarky and free trade. When trade is driven by environmental distortions rather than …

Policy debates on trade and the environment frequently refer to a need for countries linked
by trade to co-ordinate, or even harmonise, their purely domestic environmental policies …

The theory of regulatory competition in environmental policy predicts a 'race to the bottom'of
standards. This article tests the theory using environmental output data for 24 countries from …

In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of cross-national policy convergence.
Yet we still have a limited understanding of the phenomenon: Do we observe convergence …

How do domestic political institutions, specifically veto players, mediate the effect of trade
competition on regulatory races in the environmental area? Is the mediating effect more …

We provide a framework that links the impacts of own and neighboring measures of
institutional quality as well as neighboring country environmental regulations on …