Existing research that analyzes relationship between trade and environment usually applies traditional dichotomy to divide trade into export and import, paying less attention on the heterogeneity of trading partners. However, especially under the context of the current drastically changing trade...

Until now, studies on the environmental effect of foreign investment opening (FIO) in service sector are still blank. Actually, development of service sector is significant force for promoting economic modernization for the countries, thus development of service sector is extremely significant...

Some existing studies start to discuss how trade will change environment from country perspective or province perspective. Up to now, only a small number of studies provide evidence on from product level. In this research, we study environmental effects of intermediate inputs importing and...

As an important kind of export mode, processing trade has significant differences relative to other export modes. Do processing-trade firms emit less pollutants? Does processing trade transformation affect firms' pollution emissions? Based on the Melitz's (2003) framework, we construct a...