Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and air pollution

Qirjo, Dhimitri; Pascalau, Razvan; Krichevskiy, Dmitriy

doi:10.1080/21606544.2021.1877199

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“…Many empirical studies analyze the impact of trade and openness on the environment and the mechanisms of this impact with macrolevel data (Cole & Fredriksson, 2009;Frankel & Rose, 2002;Levinson, 2009;Qirjo & Pascalau, 2019). Additionally, a growing number of studies use firm-level data, for example, to discuss the impact of trade liberalization on firm pollution emissions and energy use (Cherniwchan, 2017;Gutiérrez & Teshima, 2018;He et al, 2019;Martin, 2012;Qirjo et al, 2021). Some emerging microlevel studies focus on EEP; that is, exporting firms have lower pollutant intensity or energy intensity than nonexporters (Richter & Schiersch, 2017).…”

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Exporters' environmental premium in a developing country: Firm‐level evidence from China

Yang

Xie

Huang

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Rev International Economics

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This article reveals the source of exporters' better environmental performance (exporters' environmental premium) for Chinese firms with a model based on heterogeneous firm theory and empirical analysis with a difference‐in‐differences method based on the Chinese export tax refund reduction in 2004 and comprehensive firm‐level environmental survey data. The results show that exporting releases Chinese firms' financing constraints and enables them to upgrade production technologies quickly by applying advanced production technology (capital‐embodied technological upgrading) rather than by upgrading abatement technologies, to drive down sulfur dioxide (SO2) intensity and energy intensity. Exporting also reduces a firm's average energy intensity and SO2 intensity by reallocating resources from energy‐intensive and polluting production and firms to cleaner ones, that is, the resource reallocation effect. However, Chinese firms cannot expand their production much when trade costs decrease, which makes it difficult for the scale effect to work well.

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Exporters' environmental premium in a developing country: Firm‐level evidence from China

Yang

Xie

Huang

et al. 2023

Rev International Economics

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“…This could be because CO 2 accounts for approximately 75% of all GHGs, and the former pollutant may drive the result of the latter. Other empirical studies have shown this to be the case: for example, Qirjo, Pascalau, and Krichevskiy (2019), Qirjo, Pascalau, and Krichevskiy (2020) and Qirjo, Pascalau, and Krichevskiy (2021) have shown that the implementation of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (a free trade agreement between Canada and the EU) could help decrease per capita emissions of GHGs and CO 2 , respectively, but increase per capita emissions of fluorinated gases (F-gases).…”

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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and Environmental Consequences

Qirjo

Pascalau

Christopherson

2021

Journal of Economic Integration

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We empirically investigate the effect of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the per capita emissions of eight air pollutants and municipal waste. By introducing the same explanatory variables and applying the same empirical strategy and methodologies as in Qirjo and Pascalau (2019), we provide robust evidence suggesting that the implementation of the partnership could be beneficial to the environment because it may reduce per capita emissions of CH4, hydrofluorocarbons/ perfluorinated chemicals/ SF6, N2O, NH3, and SF6 for a typical partnership member. This result is based on statistically significant evidence showing that, on average, the pollution haven motive based on national per capita income variations is dominated by the factor endowment argument based on the Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory and the pollution haven motive originating from an inverse measurement of national population density differences. However, we also report statistically significant evidence that the implementation of the partnership could denigrate the environment by increasing per capita emissions of SO2 and municipal waste.

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