Deforestation, foreign demand and export dynamics in Indonesia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rodrigue, Joel; Soumonni, Omolola
• 署名单位: Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2014.03.004
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 316-338
• 关键词: abatement; PRODUCTIVITY; Export demand; Indonesia

摘要

This paper presents a dynamic, heterogeneous firm model of investment in environmental abatement and exporting. The model highlights the interaction between firms' environmental investment and export decisions on the evolution of productivity and export demand in timber manufacturing industries. The model is structurally estimated using Indonesian timber manufacturing data that captures firm-level variation in environmental investment and export behavior. The results suggest that environmental abatement has little impact on productivity dynamics, but does encourage growth in export demand. Counterfactual experiments quantify the impact of policy change on trade and abatement decisions. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.