Environmental Economics General
A Note on the Trends in European Industrial Pollution Intensities: A Divisia Index Approach (with Matthew A. Cole and Kenichi Shimamoto), Energy Journal (2005)
This paper attempts to identify whether declining industrial pollution intensities in many European countries are...
Environmental Performance of Firms and Industries
The environmental performance of firms: The role of foreign ownership, training, and experience (with Matthew A. Cole and Eric Strobl), Ecological Economics (2008)
In this paper we extend the debate on the environmental implications of foreign direct investment...
Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK (with Matthew A. Cole), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)
This paper revisits the 'jobs versus the environment' debate and provides the first analysis for...
Globalisation, Firm-Level Characteristics and Environmental Management : A Study of Japan (with Matthew A. Cole and Kenichi Shimamoto), Ecological Economics (2006)
Using Japanese firm-level data, we identify and quantify the factors that influence the environmental management...
Industrial Characteristics, Environmental Regulations and Air Pollution: An Analysis of the UK Manufacturing Sector (with Matthew A. Cole and Kenichi Shimamoto), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2005)
This paper examines and quantifies the complex linkages between industrial activity, environmental regulations and air...
Environmental Regulations and FDI
Are ASEAN Countries Havens for Japanese Pollution Intensive Industry? (with Kenichi Shimamoto), The World Economy (2008)
In an era of closer worldwide economic integration, the role that environmental regulations play in...
Endogenous Pollution Havens: Does FDI Influence Environmental Regulations? (with Matthew A. Cole and Per G. Fredriksson), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2006)
We suggest a novel perspective on the relationship between the stringency of environmental policies and...
FDI and the Capital Intensity of “Dirty” Sectors: A Missing Piece of the Pollution Haven Puzzle. (with Matthew A. Cole), Review of Development Economics (2005)
In an increasingly integrated world, falling trade barriers mean that the role environmental regulations play...
Environmental Regulations and International Trade
Trade and Specialisation in Pollution Intensive Industries: North-South Evidence (with A K.M Azhar), International Economic Journal (2007)
The pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the capital-labour hypothesis (KLH) state that the relative level...
Why the Grass is Not Always Greener: The Competing Effects of Environmental Regulations and Factor Intensities on US Specialization (with Matthew A. Cole and Kenichi Shimamoto), Ecological Economics (2005)
The global decline in trade barriers means that environmental regulations now potentially play an increasingly...
Determining the Trade-Environment Composition Effect: The Role of Capital, Labour and Environmental Regulations (with Matthew A. Cole), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2003)
This paper argues that pollution intensive sectors may be subject to opposing forces of comparative...
Do Environmental Regulations Influence Trade Patterns? Testing Old and New Trade Theories (with Matthew A. Cole), The World Economy (2003)
The relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment has been the subject of a growing...
International Trade
On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra-Industry Trade: An empirical test for China (with A. K.M. Azhar and Junting Liu), China Economic Review (2007)
A relatively recent development in the intra-industry trade (IIT) literature is the measurement of the...
Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment: A Reassessment Using Data on Individual Workers (with Marius Brulhart and Joanne K. Lindley), Review of World Economics (2006)
We re-examine the relationship between intra-industry trade and labour reallocation, using individual-level data on manufacturing...
On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra-Industry Trade (with A. K.M. Azhar), Review of World Economics (2006)
The world has witnessed a dramatic increase in trade over the last forty years. Much...
Trade, Skills and Adjustment Costs: A Study of Intra-Sectoral Labor Mobility (with Joanne K. Lindley), Review of Development Economics (2006)
The relationship between the ability of workers to change job, sector or industry and the...
AFTA and the Asian Crisis: Help or Hindrance to ASEAN Intra-Regional Trade? (with Kengo Ikemoto), Asian Economic Journal (2004)
Using a modified gravity equation, this paper examines ASEAN intra- and extra-regional bias in bilateral...
On the Measurement of Trade-Induced Adjustment (with A. K.M. Azhar), Review of World Economics (2003)
Globalisation and closer regional integration has led to significant increases in trade between nations that...
Labour-Market Effects of Intra-Industry Trade: Evidence for the United Kingdom (with Marius Brulhart), Review of World Economics (2002)
According to the “smooth adjustment hypothesis”, the labour-market adjustment costs entailed by trade liberalisation are...
UK Intra Industy Trade with the EU North and South (with David Greenaway and Chris Milner), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1999)
Adjustment to the European single market: inferences from intra-industry trade patterns (with Marius Brulhart), Journal of Economic Studies (1998)
Labour Economics
Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK (with Matthew A. Cole), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)
This paper revisits the 'jobs versus the environment' debate and provides the first analysis for...
Immigrant Wage Differentials, Ethnicity and Occupational Clustering. (with Joanne K. Lindley), Sheffield Economics Research Paper Series (2006)
We investigate occupational attainment as well as estimating earnings differentials for non-white migrants and non-white...
Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment: A Reassessment Using Data on Individual Workers (with Marius Brulhart and Joanne K. Lindley), Review of World Economics (2006)
We re-examine the relationship between intra-industry trade and labour reallocation, using individual-level data on manufacturing...
Skill Specificity and Labour Mobility: Occupational and Sectoral Dimensions (with Joanne K. Lindley), Manchester School (2006)
The ability of workers to change job, sector or occupation and the costs associated with...
Trade, Skills and Adjustment Costs: A Study of Intra-Sectoral Labor Mobility (with Joanne K. Lindley), Review of Development Economics (2006)
The relationship between the ability of workers to change job, sector or industry and the...