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Air pollution 3 Location: Auditorium G Session Chair: Jasper Paul Röder, ETH Zürich | |
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Local Import Competition and Firm-level CO2 Emissions 1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: International Mometary Fund It is established in the literature that import competition may lead to efficiency gains in the firms facing it. However, it is unclear whether such gains extend to the environmental behavior of the firms. We contribute to the literature by investigating how local import competition, defined at different spatial dimensions within Sweden, may affect CO2 emission intensity by the local producing firms. Using detailed geographical information about the location of all manufacturing firms in Sweden, we find evidence that local import competition reduces firm-level emissions. This is in contrast to import competition nationwide. This effect wanes with the distance between the producer and the importer. The emissions reduction is driven by productivity spillovers, changes in the product mix, and emissions abatement investment. | |