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.
Zusammenfassung
Regionale Kooperation und Umwelt: Wandern “schmutzige ” Industriezweige? — Dieser Artikel entwickelt eine alternative Methode zur Untersuchung des Handels mit den Dienstleistungen, die die Umwelt als Produktionsfaktor bei der Herstellung von Gütern bereitstellt (EEFS, embodied environmental factor services), und wendet diese auf den bilateralen Handel zwischen den APEC-LÄndern an. Der Zusammenhang zwischen einer sich verstÄrkenden regionalen Kooperation und der Umweltnutzung in den entsprechenden LÄndern wird untersucht, indem der Handel mit EEFS zwischen den APEC-LÄndern wÄhrend der letzten drei Jahrzehnte analysiert wird. Es lÄsst sich ein kaskadenÄhnliches Muster in den Netto-Exporten von EEFS im Handel zwischen den ostasiatischen Volkswirtschaften feststellen. Beim EEFS-Handel zwischen nordamerikanischen Volkswirtschaften kann jedoch kein Ähnliches Muster entdeckt werden. Bei der Interpretation der Ergebnisse ist allerdings Vorsicht geboten, da die Anwendung von US-amerikanischen Daten der sektoralen UmweltverschmutzungsintensitÄt auf andere LÄnder die SchÄtzung des Handels mit EEFS verzerren kann.
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