Trade in Environmental Goods and Air Pollution: A Mediation Analysis to Estimate Total, Direct and Indirect Effects
| Autor: | Natalia Zugravu-Soilita |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités (Cemotev), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Pollution
Economics and Econometrics 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject Air pollution 02 engineering and technology International trade Management Monitoring Policy and Law Net importer medicine.disease_cause CO2 emissions Environmental goods [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics medicine Net exporter 050207 economics media_common Liberalization [QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin] 05 social sciences International economics Market dynamics SO2 emissions Environmental policy Negotiation Gains from trade 13. Climate action Total effects [SDE]Environmental Sciences F13 F14 F18 Q53 Q56 Q58 Environmental goods agreement Panel data |
| Zdroj: | Environmental and Resource Economics Environmental and Resource Economics, Springer, 2019, 74 (3), pp.1125-1162. ⟨10.1007/s10640-019-00363-6⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0924-6460 1573-1502 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10640-019-00363-6⟩ |
| Popis: | I wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.--Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.I would like to thank the two anonymous referees from the Journal for very helpful comments and suggestions that have significantly improved this paper. I am also grateful to the participants in the CEMOTEV (University of Versailles) and the LEO (University of Orleans) seminars, and in the sixth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists for their valuable comments on the previous versions of the paper. Any errors or shortcomings remain the author’s own responsibility.; International audience; Based on panel data covering 114 countries between 1996 and 2011, this study investigates the impact on pollution of trade in environmental goods (EGs). We check the validity of the implicit consequences assumed by the win–win scenario in the current trade-climate negotiations, arguing that market dynamics should guarantee that EGs’ liberalization is ‘automatically’ in the interest of all countries, regardless their market and institutional capacities. We show that trade in EGs alone fail to address environmental problems effectively. In particular, although we found efficiency gains from trade in EGs (in terms of CO2 and SO2 emissions per 1 US$ of GDP), and more recurrently for net exporters than for net importers, our results often failed to highlight environmental effectiveness (in terms of total CO2 and SO2 emissions). A general conclusion that emerges from our empirical results is that trade [in EGs] cannot effectively replace non-market-based solutions, when it comes to non-trade objectives. However, it seems to complement them efficiently. Our multiple-equation GMM estimations reveal specific direct, indirect and total effects on pollution depending on the countries’ net trade status, leading to several policy recommendations for an increased environmental effectiveness of trade in EGs. |
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