examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper …

Is a firm's ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we … construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When combining this new dataset … with well-received empirical specifications, we found that both export status and export intensity are associated with …