The study investigates the impact of trade openness on pollution in China by applying wavelet-coherence analysis, phase … openness and pollutant variables. The results indicate that trade openness has increased pollution in China especially after … 2001 when China became member of WTO. It suggests that "pollution haven hypothesis" exists in China. These results imply …

empirical evidences are mixed. This study utilizes China's dual trade regime and China's WTO entry in 2001 to construct a unique … micro dataset on manufacturing firms for China for the period 2000-2007, and performs a difference-in-difference estimation …. Results show that China's WTO entry contributed to a lower SO2 emission intensity for normal exporting firms. We further …