Trade openness and air pollution: City-level empirical evidence from China

Faqin Lin

China Economic Review, 2017, vol. 45, issue C, 78-88

Abstract: We seek to contribute to the debate over trade openness and the environment by taking specific account of the endogeneity of trade openness. We use exogenous geographic determinants of trade as instrumental variables as well as distance to Huai River for identification which is based on China's heating policy. Using air quality measure from NASA, we find that trade increases three measures of air pollution: SO2, NO2, and Aerosol concentration.

Keywords: Trade openness; Air pollution; Instrument variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F18 F64 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2017.07.001

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