Private Property Rights and Pollution in Emerging Market Economies

Zhenzeng Yang ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

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.

Keywords: Private Property Rights; Pollution; Emerging Market; CO2 Emission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F64 Q28 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07-30
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