Determinants of trade in recyclable wastes: evidence from commodity-based trade of waste and scrap.
This paper examines factors that affect the trade of recyclable waste in both exporting and importing countries. To this end, we employ two important elements: first, we adopt a gravity model in our empirical methodology; second, we select five waste and scrap commodities and undertake estimations u...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Development Economics Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 250 - 271 |
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