International trade of environmental goods in gravity models

Cantore, Nicola; Cheng, Charles Fang Chin

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.05.036

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“…This paper uses China's RE product export data to 17 countries and an extended gravity model to investigate the impact of environmental regulation on RE export. The findings suggest that environmental regulation can significantly promote RE export, which are parallel to the research results of Porter and van der Linde [19], Berman and Bin [20] and Cantore and Cheng [21]. They all believe that the "innovation offsets" effect of strict environmental regulation is conducive to enhancing China's export competitiveness.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Control variables. Following Van Beers and Van den Bergh [18], Cantore and Cheng [21] and Abbasi et al [56], there are seven control variables being added into the econometric model in this paper: GDP (GDP it and GDP jt ), the geographic distance (Dis ij ), absolute value of the difference in per capita GDP (pgdp ijt ), economic freedom index (IEF jt ), dummy variable stating whether the trade partner has a RE dispute with China (TF ijt ) and total factor productivity (TFP jt ). GDP it and GDP jt in this paper represent supply capacity of China and spending power of the importer, respectively.…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 99%

“…By contrast, the Porter Hypothesis (PH) declares that well-designed environmental regulation can enhance existing firms' global competitiveness. Over the past 30 years, numerous economists had found conflicting evidence and alternative theories to explain the PH, proving that environmental regulation such as taxes or emission allowances can trigger innovation that may offset the costs of firms, which can be called "innovation offsets" effect in some circumstances [19][20][21]. Then, Jaffe and Palmer broadened the PH to include three forms: "weak", "strong" and "narrow" [22].…”

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How environmental regulation affects China’s rare earth export?

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China’s rare earth export trade has developed so rapidly since 1990s that China has gradually occupied a leading position in the international market. However, this fast development was proceeding at the cost of the rare earth energy consumption and environmental devastation. Now China begins to attach great importance to environmental protection, which attracts many researchers. This study aims to analyze the influence of environmental regulation on China’s rare earth export trade. And the original study is amongst the few to examine the relationship between environmental regulation and China’s rare earth export with the product-level data. Different from previous studies, this paper selects China’s rare earth export data from 1995 to 2015 and introduces product heterogeneity based on the rare earth production process. Moreover, this study uses the entropy weight method to measure the intensity of environmental regulation. The core conclusions are as follows: (1) Environmental regulation significantly promotes rather than restrains China’s rare earth export. (2) According to the rare earth production process, this paper divides rare earth products into 3 kinds, that is, rare earth raw materials, rare earth useful components and rare earth end-use applications. Then, it is found that rare earth useful component export in processing and smelting is positively affected by environmental regulation. Rare earth raw materials and end-use applications in China’s export are hardly affected. (3) Technological innovation has a mediating effect on the impact mechanism of environmental regulation on China’s rare earth export, which means that environmental regulation significantly promotes technological innovation of enterprises, and thereby the rare earth export is increased. The findings are helpful for policymakers to resolve the issue of environmental devastation.

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“…Finally, these group means are used as instrumental variables for explanatory variables, and the estimation is similar to a two-stage least squares one [24,68]. This method is widely used for gravity models in international trade to solve endogeneity problems [24,78,79].…”

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The effects of China’s cross-border e-commerce on its exports: a comparative analysis of goods and services trade

Yin

Choi

2021

Electron Commer Res

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This study examines the effects of China’s cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) on its goods and services exports to ‘Belt and Road’ (B&R) countries for the period 2000–2018 using a gravity model. We find that CBEC has a greater positive impact on trade in services than on trade in goods, especially after the implementation of the B&R initiative. Furthermore, as the level of CBEC rises, distance tends to have a lower (higher) impact on services (goods) trade, whereas the impact on services (goods) trade increased (decreased) annually. Hence, promoting the sustainable development of CBEC can lead to increased export volumes.

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“…Next, a gravitational model is developed for determining the factors that affect the efficiency of export-import energy operations (Cantore & Cheng, 2018):…”

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Transit tariff optimization model for Russia and Central Asia energy cooperation

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Ponkratov²,

Karepova³

et al. 2019

JESI

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The purpose of this article is to develop an optimization model for determining transit tariffs for energy resources, ensuring maximum efficiency of energy cooperation between Russia and the countries of Central Asia. The informational basis of the study was the statistical values of the indicators in the context of the countries studied for 2010-2017: gross domestic product (GDP), exports, energy imports, CO2 emissions, the level of transit tariffs for oil and gas. In order to achieve the objectives set by the method of multidimensional factor and integral analysis, the effectiveness of export-import relations between the studied countries was evaluated. The regression analysis method determined the elasticity coefficients of the export-import potential of countries and the transit tariff, with their impact on the efficiency of energy trade. Using a non-linear method of the generalized decreasing gradient, a model has been developed for calculating the optimal levels of transit tariffs for oil and gas, at which maximum efficiency of energy cooperation in the framework of export-import operations between Russia and Central Asia is achieved. The developed model for calculating the optimization of transit tariffs for hydrocarbons is based on the mutual reduction of their level between countries and the principle of equivalence. Practical application of the obtained optimal values of transit tariffs will ensure the intensification of export-import operations with hydrocarbons between countries on mutually beneficial economic conditions. It will be the basis for the development of effective strategies for the development of dense energy cooperation in the future.

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International trade of environmental goods in gravity models

Cited by 61 publications

References 20 publications

How environmental regulation affects China’s rare earth export?

How environmental regulation affects China’s rare earth export?

The effects of China’s cross-border e-commerce on its exports: a comparative analysis of goods and services trade

Transit tariff optimization model for Russia and Central Asia energy cooperation

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