Abstract
Regional Cooperation and the Environment: Do "Dirty" Industries Migrate? - This article develops an alternative method to investigate trade in embodied environmental factor services (EEFS) and applies it to bilateral trade between APEC economies. The issue of regional cooperation and the environment is addressed by investigating trade in EEFS between APEC economies in the last three decades. We observe a 'cascading' pattern in net exports of EEFS between East Asian economies. However, we do not observe a similar pattern in the trade between North American economies. The results should be interpreted with caution since the application of US sectoral pollution intensity data to other countries may lead to biased estimation of trade in EEFS.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 137-157 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv |
Volume | 136 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2000 |