Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cherniwchan, Jevan; Najjar, Nouri
• 署名单位: Carleton University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200290
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 125-160
• 关键词: trade; pollution; reallocations; PRODUCTIVITY; IMPACT; entry; COSTS; FIRMS

摘要

This paper investigates how a common form of environmental regulation-air quality standards-affects exporters. We develop a simple theoretical model to show how the design of these standards causes (i) some firms to stop exporting and (ii) a reduction in the export volumes of affected continuing exporters. We exploit quasi-experimental variation resulting from the design of Canadian air quality standards to test these predictions empirically. Our estimates confirm our model's predictions: we find that for the most affected manufacturers, regulation reduced export volumes by 32 percent and increased the likelihood plants stop exporting by 5 percentage points.