Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment

Dean, Judith M.; Lovely, Mary E.

doi:10.3386/w13860

Cited by 51 publications

(67 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…By increasing the income, free trade can bring more resource and technology to improve the environment. Additionally, it can also benefit to the international exchange of cleaning technology, production, and service [42][43][44][45] considered that trade liberalization can reduce the energy market distortion and decrease the carbon emission worldwide. Some researches argue that foreign trade has made a great process in environmental and energy efficiency [29,[46][47][48].…”

Section: Tobit Regression Data and Its Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Efficiency and Its Determinants for Manufacturing in China

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:In this study, we analyze the environmental efficiency performance and its determinants of 29 manufacturing industries in China from 2006 to 2011 by employing a two-stage DEA (data envelopment analysis)-Tobit model. For providing comparative and robust evidence, the 29 manufacturing industries are classified into three groups based on the pollution intensity. In the first stage, a SBM (slacks-based measure)-DEA model is applied to assess economic efficiency and environmental efficiency scores to illustrate the effects of the environmental factors, while taking into consideration the undesirable output. In the second stage, utilizing these calculated environmental efficiency scores as dependent variables, we employ a Tobit regression model to study the determinants of the environmental efficiency by selecting three independent variables including the industry scale, the openness degree and the energy structure. It turns out that the environmental factors have a positive effect on the lightly polluted industries and a negative effect on the moderately polluted industries, the heavily polluted industries, and the overall industries, while the openness degree, the industry scale, and the energy structure can be effective measures to improve environmental efficiency. Based on these findings, we propose policy measures to enhance the environmental efficiency of manufacturing in China.

show abstract

Section: Tobit Regression Data and Its Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Efficiency and Its Determinants for Manufacturing in China

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The empirical evidence has likewise cast doubt on the pollution haven hypothesis. Studies using aggregate data, such as Antweiler et al (2001), Dean and Lovely (2010), Javorcik and Wei (2004) and Ederington et al (2004), generally fail to find support for increased FDI leading to increased pollution. In addition, recent firm-level studies including Cole et al (2008), Cole et al (2006), and Kaiser and Schulze (2003) have uncovered a positive effect of foreign ownership on the environmental performance of firms in the host country.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? Evidence from firm-level data

Batrakova

Davies

2012

Rev World Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

One of the greatest concerns over globalisation is its impact on the environment. This paper contributes to this debate by analysing the consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm's energy consumption. We show both theoretically and empirically that for low fuel intensity firms exporting status is associated with higher fuel consumption while for high fuel intensity firms exporting is results in decreased fuel consumption. Further analysis reveals that higher fuel consumption of low fuel intensity firms occurs after exporting, perhaps as a response to increased production. In contrast, firms using relatively large quantities of fuel decrease their energy use after exporting, perhaps by adopting more fuel-efficient technology. These results indicate that the use of aggregate data, as is the case in almost all studies of trade and the environment, is likely to conceal important connections between the two.

show abstract

“…The method mainly used in the measurement of the implicit pollution is the Input-output method which firstly applied in the national economic accounting. In the 70s of 20centry, as the problems of economic, energy and environment become more and more significant, many economists use input-output model in the energy economy and environmental economics to analyze the energy consumption, carbon emissions and environmental pollution problems [5]. The main research on the pollution embodied in trade can be divided into two aspects, the single regional input-output method and the multiple regional input-output method.…”

Section: The Implicit Pollution Problem Of International Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

The Analysis of the Relationship between the International Trade and the Environment Pollution

Shen¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Innovative Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. With the development of international trade, the environmental problems become more and more serious. This research firstly summarizes the environmental effects of international trade; based on this, the implicit pollution problem of international trade is analyzed. Then the international trade and environmental pollution status in China is analyzed to help promote the harmonious development of international trade and the environment protection.

show abstract

Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment

Cited by 51 publications

References 18 publications

Environmental Efficiency and Its Determinants for Manufacturing in China

Environmental Efficiency and Its Determinants for Manufacturing in China

Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? Evidence from firm-level data

The Analysis of the Relationship between the International Trade and the Environment Pollution

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About