Fredrik N G Andersson
Associate professor
International trade and carbon emissions : The role of Chinese institutional and policy reforms
Author
Summary, in English
The carbon dioxide embodied in Chinese exports to developed countries increased rapidly from 1995 to 2008. We test the extent to which institutional reforms in China can explain this increase. We focus on five areas of reforms: trade liberalization, environmental institutions, legal and property rights, institutional risk and exchange rate policy. Our results show that trade liberalization, weak environmental institutions, exchange rate policy, and legal and property rights affect emissions. Our results also indicate that the lack of reform in the utilities sector is an important factor in the rapid increase in embodied emissions.
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2018-01-01
Language
English
Pages
29-39
Publication/Series
Journal of Environmental Management
Volume
205
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Economics
Keywords
- CO2 emissions
- china
- trade
- carbon leakage
- institutions
- policy
- reforms
- CO2 emissions
- trade
- institutions
- China
- carbon leakage
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0301-4797