Intra-EU trade-embodied carbon emissions: Is there voting for dirty comparative advantages?

Maren Kaliske

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 231, issue C

Abstract: I use voting outcomes from the European Parliament to construct a novel sector-specific measure for revealed environmental policy preferences for EU member states. Applying a theory-consistent structural gravity model on intra-EU carbon embodied in trade between 2000 and 2014, this study finds that binding multilateral environmental agreements successfully eliminate comparative advantages for emission intensive industries.

Keywords: Gravity model; EU; Pollution Haven Hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111305

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