Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Since 2005, the World Bank has released a data set titled "Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations." These data have become an important set of indicators of the international business climate. However, the impacts of pro-business regulation on the environment have generally been ov...

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Main Author: RIEGER, Annika Marie
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-51132024-01-04T07:27:06Z Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions RIEGER, Annika Marie Since 2005, the World Bank has released a data set titled "Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations." These data have become an important set of indicators of the international business climate. However, the impacts of pro-business regulation on the environment have generally been overlooked. To help resolve this problem, I estimate a time-series cross-sectional Prais-Winsten regression model to test the relationship between business climate—represented by the World Bank’s Doing Business data set—and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in developing nations over 10 years, from 2005 to 2014. The results show that there is a statistically significant and positive association between business climate and CO2 emissions in developing nations. This indicates that pro-business regulations contribute to increasing CO2 emissions in developing nations, a major driver of global climate change. I suggest that these results are due to the business climate encouraging environmental load displacement, which posits that developed nations are partially displacing their environmental impacts onto developing nations. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3855 info:doi/10.22459/HER.25.01.2019.04 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5113/viewcontent/Rieger_2019.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University business climate climate change environmental load displacement environmental sociology political economy Place and Environment Sociology
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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topic business climate
climate change
environmental load displacement
environmental sociology
political economy
Place and Environment
Sociology
spellingShingle business climate
climate change
environmental load displacement
environmental sociology
political economy
Place and Environment
Sociology
RIEGER, Annika Marie
Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
description Since 2005, the World Bank has released a data set titled "Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations." These data have become an important set of indicators of the international business climate. However, the impacts of pro-business regulation on the environment have generally been overlooked. To help resolve this problem, I estimate a time-series cross-sectional Prais-Winsten regression model to test the relationship between business climate—represented by the World Bank’s Doing Business data set—and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in developing nations over 10 years, from 2005 to 2014. The results show that there is a statistically significant and positive association between business climate and CO2 emissions in developing nations. This indicates that pro-business regulations contribute to increasing CO2 emissions in developing nations, a major driver of global climate change. I suggest that these results are due to the business climate encouraging environmental load displacement, which posits that developed nations are partially displacing their environmental impacts onto developing nations.
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author RIEGER, Annika Marie
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title Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
title_short Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
title_full Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
title_fullStr Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
title_full_unstemmed Doing Business and Increasing Emissions? An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Business Regulation on CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions
title_sort doing business and increasing emissions? an exploratory analysis of the impact of business regulation on co<sub>2</sub> emissions
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2019
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3855
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