Journal
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 73-82Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.08.005
Keywords
Trade in intermediates; Offshoring; Air emissions; Decomposition analysis
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Since the mid-90s, production-related air emissions in Belgian manufacturing have fallen substantially and it can be shown that the pace of the fall has been fastest for domestic intermediates. It is widely debated whether offshoring has played a role in this fall by replacing domestic intermediates by imported intermediates. This paper develops a decomposition analysis to measure the contribution of offshoring - the share of imported intermediates in total intermediates - to the fall in air emissions for domestic intermediates. Based on the results from this decomposition analysis, it was possible to calculate that 17% of the fall in greenhouse gas emissions, 6% of the fall in acidifying emissions and 7% of the fall in tropospheric precursor emissions in Belgian manufacturing between 1995 and 2007 can be attributed to offshoring. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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