Environmental Policies and Dirty Products: Do Pollution Havens Exist? Evidence from East Asia
This paper aims to analyze indications of pollution havens in the East Asia and the trade patterns of dirty products in East Asia. This research using secondary data, 10 East Asian countries namely Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, China, Korea, and Philippines are s...
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
2011
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| Institution: | Universitas Gadjah Mada |
| Summary: | This paper aims to analyze indications of pollution havens in the East Asia and the trade
patterns of dirty products in East Asia. This research using secondary data, 10 East Asian
countries namely Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, China,
Korea, and Philippines are sourced from the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics
Database (UN-COMTRADE). The analysis was performed with the Trade Balance Index to
analyze the trade in dirty products, the unit root test to see stationery data to identify indications
of pollution havens, Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA) to see the indicator
of comparative advantage, and linear regression to see the dynamics of comparative advantage.
The research found that the weak indication of pollution havens. The existence of pollution
havens but the trend is not significant, and the existence of comparative advantage in dirty
products in East Asia. |
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