Trade and the environment: New methods, measurements, and results

J Cherniwchan, BR Copeland… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on
new results and methods. The review is given structure by a novel decomposition linking …

Re-visiting the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Malaysia: Fresh evidence from ARDL bounds testing approach

W Ali, A Abdullah, M Azam - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This study reinvestigates the presence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in the context
of Malaysia over the period of 1971–2012. For this purpose, the impact of real GDP per …

Trade openness–carbon emissions nexus: the importance of turning points of trade openness for country panels

M Shahbaz, S Nasreen, K Ahmed, S Hammoudeh - Energy economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper explores the relationship between trade openness and CO 2 emissions by
incorporating economic growth as an additional and potential determinant of this …

The impact of income, trade, urbanization, and financial development on CO2 emissions in 19 emerging economies

K Saidi, MB Mbarek - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2017 - Springer
This study attempts to empirically examine the impact of financial development, income,
trade openness, and urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions for the panel of emerging …

Does economic, financial and institutional developments matter for environmental quality? A comparative analysis of EU and MEA countries

M Abid - Journal of environmental management, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) with
a sample of 58 MEA (Middle East & African) and 41 EU (European Union) countries for the …

How does foreign direct investment affect pollution? Toward a better understanding of the direct and conditional effects

N Zugravu-Soilita - Environmental and resource economics, 2017 - Springer
This paper seeks to investigate the impact of foreign direct investments (FDIs) on industrial
pollution (CO _ 2, SO _ 2, NO _ x CO 2, SO 2, NO x and BOD emissions) on a large sample …

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

F Lin - China Economic Review, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth: an assessment based on production and consumption emission inventories

O Fernández-Amador, JF Francois… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Working with a new dataset on comparable global CO 2 production and consumption
inventories spanning the 1997–2011 period, we investigate the relationship between real …

Environmental policy design, innovation and efficiency gains in electricity generation

N Johnstone, S Managi, MC Rodríguez, I Haščič… - Energy Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper explores the relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and
competitiveness using environmental patent data. The analysis is conducted in two stages …

CO2 emission intensity and exporting: Evidence from firm-level data

PM Richter, A Schiersch - European Economic Review, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper analyses whether exporting firms are less CO 2 emission-intensive than non-
exporting competitors. It exploits a novel and unique dataset for Germany, a major exporting …