Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13031517
Keywords
green industry; green growth; gravity model; environmental tax
Funding
- BK21 FOUR (Fostering Outstanding Universities for Research) - Ministry of Education (MOE) of Korea
- National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea
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This study found that promoting environment-related tax increases green exports among high-income countries. Additionally, the increase in a country's green trade depends on the energy intensity level of its trading partner countries. Low- and middle-income countries need to promote environmental policies and green production processes to enhance competitiveness in the global market.
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of environmental policies on bilateral green exports among developed and developing countries. The empirical analysis was based on the fixed-effects gravity model estimation with the PPML (Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood) for bilateral green trade of world countries for 1990-2019. This study focused on two proxy environmental policy indicators: environment-related tax and energy intensity. The major findings were that, first, promotion of environment-related tax increases green exports among HIC (high-income countries) and, second, an increase in the green trade of a country depends on the energy intensity level of its trading partner countries in order to stabilize domestic demand and production. This result is shown to be significant and consistent within the trade between the same income groups. Thus, supporting the green growth strategy, empirical results suggest that LMY (low- and middle-income) countries have to promote environmental policies and green production processes to be competitive in the global market.
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