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The carbon footprint of global trade imbalances
Mahlkow, Hendrik; Wanner, Joschka - 2023
International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a world of balanced international trade. Specifically, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414198
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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800710
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Pollution, shadow economy and corruption : theory and evidence
Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - 2011
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999-2005 from more than 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375247
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Why are firms that export cleaner? : international trade and CO2 emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - 2014 - This version: May 2014
This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358267
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Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? : insights from high-income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay P. - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599044
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Carbon tariffs : an analysis of the trade, welfare and emission effects
Larch, Mario; Wanner, Joschka - 2014
Carbon tariffs are one prominently discussed environmental policy. The proponents stress the carbon tariffs' ability to mitigate the potential negative effect of environmental-friendly production on competitiveness, to avoid carbon leakage and to reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235843
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Environmental policies and stagnation in a two-country economy
Ikefuji, Masako; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2023
warming is the result of prolonged pollution emissions by developed countries, while developed countries demand that … pollution emissions differ, depending on the combination of their business situations. If both countries achieve full employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444056
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Unilateral CO2 reduction policy with more than one carbon energy source
Daubanes, Julien Xavier; Henriet, Fanny; Schubert, Katheline - 2020
We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard theoretical approach to carbon leakage, we show that unilateral CO2 reduction policies generate a higher leakage rate in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294568
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Trade and the environment : the role of firm heterogeneity
Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570712