 Economic gains and environmental losses from international trade: A decomposition of pollution intensity in China's value-added tradeYuwan Duan and Bingqian Yan Energy Economics, 2019, vol. 83, issue C, 540-554 Abstract: Based on a multi-regional input-output model, this study explores the temporal changes and driving forces of China's environmental losses relative to its economic gains from international trade with each of its 45 trading partners from 1995 to 2015. We find that China suffered larger environment losses per $US value-added through exports than almost all of its trading partners. Over time, the environmental losses paid by China declined quicker than that of its bilateral trading partners. The decomposition results of our research further show that the technology effect played a dominant role in this decline. Moreover, the phenomenon that developed economies have outsourced dirty intermediate production stages to emerging economies via trade in intermediate goods, has led to the emerging economies suffering greater environmental losses over time for certain economic gains from international trade. Keywords: Environmental losses; Pollution intensity; Value-added trade; Multi-regional input-output model (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:83:y:2019:i:c:p:540-554 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2019.08.002 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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