Exporting pollution

Itzhak Ben-David

Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate, Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

Yeejin Jang

Assistant Professor in Finance, University of New South Wales

Stefanie Kleimeier

Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Banking, Open University Netherlands

Michael Viehs

Research Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

Well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict

Read "Exporting Pollution: Where Do Multinational Firms Emit CO2?" by Itzhak Ben-David, Yeejin Jang, Stefanie Kleimeier and Michael Viehs here.

Anti-pollution laws penalise firms whose activities emit CO₂. In this interview, Itzhak Ben-David discusses how well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict.

Editors' note: This audio first appeared on VoxEU.