Private Property Rights and Pollution in Emerging Market Economies

Yang, Zhenzeng (2013): Private Property Rights and Pollution in Emerging Market Economies.

Abstract

I use cross-country panel data to show that strengthening of private property rights protection lowers pollution emission intensity. The finding is robust to the inclusion of many controls and use of different independent variables. This paper provides preliminary empirical evidence for property rights theory of environmental goods, and suggests that completely specifying property rights is an important approach to response to environmental degradation.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Private Property Rights, Pollution, Emerging Market, CO2 Emission
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization > F64 - Environment; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q28 - Government Policy; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth

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