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In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of firms shifting stages of their production processes overseas. In this paper we investigate whether firms outsource the dirtier stages of production to minimise domestic environmental regulation costs - a process broadly...
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international trade flows. The empirical analysis has been organized into two steps. Firstly, we have classified the manufacturing …
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This study develops a trade–environment model based on new trade theory and emphasizes the role of international … productivity differences in quantifying environmental consequences of trade. I introduce environmental policy and factor endowment … differentials into a multi-country general equilibrium model of bilateral trade with random productivities and trade barriers. I …
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-type model, extended by firms’ emissions and abatement decisions using data on aggregate output, trade and emissions. The …
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firm-level data on energy use, imports, and material purchases. I document that import shares in German industry have … electricityintensive firms; for firms using easily tradable goods; and both for regular importers with a trade network and occasional/non-importers. …
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drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory …-waste management or wastewater treatment. While increased trade in environmental products is not an end in itself, the environmental …
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drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory …-waste management or wastewater treatment. While increased trade in environmental products is not an end in itself, the environmental …
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In a stylized model of international trade, firms in the North indirectly export second-hand products to a … representative firm in the South to be reused as intermediate goods, with potential trade gains. The level of reusability of waste …
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In a stylized model of international trade, firms in the North indirectly export second-hand products to a … representative firm in the South to be reused as intermediate goods, with potential trade gains. The level of reusability of waste …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116358
This paper investigates whether membership in Regional Trade agreements (RTAs) with environmental provisions (EPs … and technique effects are added to the estimated model and the endogeneity of income and trade variables is addressed …
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