An Account of Pollution Emission Embodied in Global Trade: PGT1 and PGT2 Database

Honma, Satoshi and Yoshida, Yushi (2014): An Account of Pollution Emission Embodied in Global Trade: PGT1 and PGT2 Database.

Abstract

For the period between 1988 and 2009, we constructed the two sets of the world panel database for the pollution emission embedded in international trade. By applying the time-invariant common pollution intensity at industry level for international trade of over 150 countries, a change in pollution emission from the first database reflects scale and composition effects. This first database allows us to investigate whether the composition of international trade for a country changed toward pollution intensive industries during the last two decades. By utilizing a time-varying and country-varying pollution intensity variable for technique effect, the second database provides a full account of pollution emission embodied in global trade and show to what degree the pollution emission is attributed to scale, composition and technique effects.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Database Construction; Environment; International trade; Pollution emission; World Panel Database
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F18 - Trade and Environment; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth

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