Import Liberalization of Intermediates and Environment: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing

This paper investigates how the import liberalization of intermediates affects firm-level pollution emissions. We divide the impact of freer import of intermediates on pollution emissions into induced scale, composition and technique effects and then develop interaction terms to examine these effect...

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Main Authors: Ling-Yun He, Liang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/9/2579