Exporting Pollution:Where Do Multinational Firms Emit CO2?

Autor: Michael Viehs, Yeejin Jang, Itzhak Ben-David, Stefanie Kleimeier
Přispěvatelé: Finance, RS: GSBE Theme Sustainable Development, Department of Accounting and Finance, RS-Research Line Innovation (part of LIRS program)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Pollution
Economics and Econometrics
f23 - "Multinational Firms
International Business"
IMPACT
media_common.quotation_subject
q56 - "Environment and Development
Environment and Trade
Sustainability
Environmental Accounts and Accounting
Environmental Equity
Population Growth"
REGULATIONS
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law

Development
Multinational Firms
International Business
0502 economics and business
EXTERNALITIES
r11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth
FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT
Environmental Issues
050207 economics
050205 econometrics
media_common
and Changes
o13 - "Economic Development: Agriculture
Natural Resources
Energy
Environment
Other Primary Products"
05 social sciences
GOVERNANCE
International economics
Environment and Development
Population Growth
TRADE
r11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth
Development
Environmental Issues
and Changes

Economic Development: Agriculture
Other Primary Products
Regional Economic Activity: Growth
Multinational corporation
Microdata (HTML)
ENVIRONMENTAL-REGULATION
HAVEN HYPOTHESIS
Business
Zdroj: Kleimeier, S, Ben-David, I, Viehs, M & Jang, Y 2021, ' Exporting Pollution : Where Do Multinational Firms Emit CO2? ', Economic Policy, vol. 36, no. 107, pp. 377-437 . https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiab009
Economic Policy, 36(107), 377-437. Wiley-Blackwell
Economic Policy, 36(107), 377-437. Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0266-4658
DOI: 10.1093/epolic/eiab009
Popis: Despite widespread awareness of the detrimental impact of CO2 pollution on the world climate, countries vary widely in how they design and enforce environmental laws. Using novel microdata about multinational firms' CO2 emissions across countries, we document that firms headquartered in countries with strict environmental policies perform their polluting activities abroad in countries with relatively weaker policies. These effects are largely driven by tightened environmental policies in home countries that incentivize firms to pollute abroad rather than lenient foreign policies that attract those firms. Although firms headquartered in countries with strict domestic environmental policies are more likely to export pollution to foreign countries, they nevertheless emit somewhat less overall CO2 globally.
Databáze: OpenAIRE