Transnational linkages and the Spillover of Environment-Efficiency into Developing Countries
Transnational linkages and the Spillover of Environment-Efficiency into Developing Countries
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1305131
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发表时间：
2009-05
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通讯作者：
Richard Perkins;E. Neumayer
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作者：
Richard Perkins;E. Neumayer
关于日益增长的跨国联系的“积极”影响的论点通常集中于它们在传播有助于提高国家环境效率的环境上级革新方面的作用。本文通过研究发展中国家与CO2和SO2效率更高的经济体的联系是否有助于国内CO2和SO2效率的提高来实证检验这些说法。我们的大N，统计调查结果警告说，对一些效率为导向的乐观主义的支持者的全球化。虽然进口与污染效率更高的国家的关系被发现溢出到改善国内二氧化碳和二氧化硫的效率，无论是通过出口，内向外国直接投资（FDI）或电话跨国联系似乎有任何影响国内污染效率。
Arguments about the “positive” influence of growing transnational linkages have typically focused on their role in diffusing environmentally superior innovations which help to raise countries’ environment-efficiency. The present article empirically tests these claims by examining whether developing countries’ linkages with more CO2- and SO2-efficient economies contribute to domestic improvements in CO2- and SO2-efficiency. Our large-N, statistical findings caution against some of the efficiency-oriented optimism voiced by supporters of globalization. Although imports ties with more pollution-efficient countries are found to spillover into improved domestic CO2- and SO2-efficiency, neither transnational linkages via exports, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) nor telephone calls appear to have any influence on domestic pollution-efficiency.