This paper analyzes imported carbon emission at the firm level. To do so, the authors combine information on emissions, imports, imported emissions and energy prices for French manufacturing firms between 1997 and 2014. Read more
offshoring
The authors of this paper introduce a simple empirical approach to test the pollution offshoring hypothesis (POH) combining a comprehensive industrial mergers and acquisitions dataset, a measure of sectoral linkages based on input-output tables and an index score of environmental policy stringency. Read more
Conflicting evidence has been presented on carbon leakage, caused largely due to misconceptions over the term’s meaning. The confusion is worth disentangling because it is obscuring the debate on how to act, argue Misato Sato and Josh Burke. Read more
