Outsourcing, trade, technology, and greenhouse gas emissions

LaPlue, Lawrence D.; Erickson, Christopher A.

doi:10.1007/s10018-019-00256-4

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“…In these equilibrium conditions, we have defined the parameter combinations η o and ψ o , and export shares ζ od,s ≡ X od,s / ∑ d X od,s , where X od,s is the value of trade from country o to country d of goods from sector s . 16 Equation (12) says that in any counterfactual, labor demand must equal labor supply in each country. Equation (13) says that in any counterfactual, the expected profit from drawing a productivity must equal 16 Specifically, the fixed cost of drawing a productivity.…”

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“…16 Equation (12) says that in any counterfactual, labor demand must equal labor supply in each country. Equation (13) says that in any counterfactual, the expected profit from drawing a productivity must equal 16 Specifically, the fixed cost of drawing a productivity. We use equations (12) and (13) to find the wages and firm entry decisions that characterize each counterfactual.…”

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Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade

Shapiro

Walker

2018

American Economic Review

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Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from US manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial increase in manufacturing output. We show that these emissions reductions are primarily driven by within-product changes in emissions intensity rather than changes in output or in the composition of products produced. We then develop and estimate a quantitative model linking trade with the environment to better understand the economic forces driving these changes. Our estimates suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions. (JEL F18, H23, L60, Q52, Q53, Q56, Q58)

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Section: Methodology For Analyzing Counterfactualsmentioning

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Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade

Shapiro

Walker

2018

American Economic Review

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190

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“…Obviously, according to Equation (10), if E BEGT r,t < 0, under a consumption-based accounting approach, the total GHGs will be aggravated for a region r in year t, which may lead to more GHGs' reduction responsibilities to be shouldered, and vice versa.…”

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“…Therefore, promoting proactive GHGs reduction has become the focus of world attention. Of particular note is that, with the increase of the population and the acceleration of industrial process in emerging economies, such as India and China, their rapid urbanization and industrialization has led to a sharp increase in the consumption of fossil fuels, with an annual growth rate of around 3% [ 8 , 9 , 10 ], and thus, it has resulted in an enormous challenge on the formulation of global environment governance policies. Consequently, for policy makers, the most important issue at this juncture is to investigate global GHGs and the relevant issues, thereby developing more effective environmental governance measure.…”

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“…Obviously, a more comprehensive analysis could enable stakeholders to effectively develop environmental governance strategies upon a global scale. Notably, using the structural decomposition analysis within the multi-regional input-output analytical framework, although a few studies [ 10 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 ] explored the impacts of some determinants, such as trade openness, pollution emission intensity, the level of production technology, and requirements for final products on the carbon emissions embodied in trade changes for a group of countries. However, these studies did not take into account the spatial correlation, and the research units are treated as a single and independent individual; as a result, the possible impacts of the spatial spillover effects from influencing factors on the changes in the GHGs transferring via trade have failed to be explored.…”

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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Transferring via Trade: Influencing Factors and Policy Implications

Zhong

Gao

2020

IJERPH

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Global climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from anthropogenic activities have already become the focus of the world. A more systematic and comprehensive analysis on the factors influencing the changes of global GHGs transferring via trade have not been fully discussed. To this end, employing spatial econometric regression models and multi-regional input-output models, this paper reveals factors influencing the GHGs transferring via trade changes in 39 major economies, so as to develop the relevant GHGs reduction policies. The results indicate that regions with the highest net outflow of GHGs transferring via trade are primarily Russia and Canada, and the adverse effects of promoting GHGs reduction on the national economy could be avoided by these regions owing to trade relations. Additionally, factors influencing the changes in GHGs transferring via trade have significant spatial autocorrelation, and population size and energy structure exert significant spatial spillover effects on the changes in the GHGs transferring via trade. On this basis, this paper suggests that one more effective way to prevent trade from the rigorous demands of environmental governance measures while preserving the economic benefits of international trade may be to facilitate cooperation between countries on GHGs mitigation. Further, we articulate more balanced environment governance policies, including conducting the sharing of advanced energy technologies and developing clearer production technologies.

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Decomposition of air pollution emissions from Swedish manufacturing

Ustyuzhanina

2021

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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Starting from the ’90s, Swedish manufacturing output has been constantly growing, while emissions of some major air pollutants have been declining. This paper decomposes manufacturing pollution emissions to identify the forces associated with the abatement. It uses a newly available dataset on actual annual emissions from Swedish manufacturing and creates an index of emission intensities for the major local air pollutants to directly estimate the technique effect for the period 2007–2017. The results suggest that the main driver of the clean-up was improvements in emission intensities, while the composition of output actually moved towards more pollution-intensive goods. In the absence of changes in scale and technique, manufacturing pollution emissions would have increased in a range between 3 (particulate matter) and 20% (non-methane volatile compounds) between 2007 and 2017.

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Outsourcing, trade, technology, and greenhouse gas emissions

Cited by 5 publications

References 53 publications

Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade

Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Transferring via Trade: Influencing Factors and Policy Implications

Decomposition of air pollution emissions from Swedish manufacturing

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