Until now, studies on the environmental effect of foreign investment opening (FIO) in service sector are still blank. Actually, development of service sector is significant force for promoting economic modernization for the countries, thus development of service sector is extremely significant...

Importing is an important method to connect the domestic market with international market. By importing energy resources to replace parts of domestic production, a country’s energy pressure has been alleviated to a certain extent, but does importing really improve a country’s energy...

As an important kind of export mode, processing trade has significant differences relative to other export modes. Do processing-trade firms emit less pollutants? Does processing trade transformation affect firms' pollution emissions? Based on the Melitz's (2003) framework, we construct a...

Some existing studies start to discuss how trade will change environment from country perspective or province perspective. Up to now, only a small number of studies provide evidence on from product level. In this research, we study environmental effects of intermediate inputs importing and...

Extant analyses discussing trade’s environmental impacts simply use traditional dichotomy to distinguish trade into exporting and importing, failing to take into consideration the heterogeneity of trading partners. However, exiting theories cannot effectively predict the impacts of trading...

Existing research that analyzes relationship between trade and environment usually applies traditional dichotomy to divide trade into export and import, paying less attention on the heterogeneity of trading partners. However, especially under the context of the current drastically changing trade...

This paper examines the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution using a joint distribution dynamics approach. This approach enables to estimate the transition process and long-run distribution and to examine the mechanisms behind the evolution process. The approach is...

This paper examines the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution using a joint distribution dynamics approach. This approach enables to estimate the transition process and long-run distribution and to examine the mechanisms behind the evolution process. The approach is...

The goal of "dual carbon" has brought the pressure of reducing carbon emissions to the road transportation sector in China. This study aims to identify and analyze possible policy measures that would help to achieve this goal from the perspective of the whole life cycle. We build a bottom-up...

In the context of deglobalization and Sino-US trade friction, trade policy uncertainty significantly increases. How does trade policy uncertainty affect firms’ pollution emissions? In this study, we incorporate energy, pollution and trade policy uncertainty into Melitz’s (2003) framework,...