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International Trade Location: D-104 Session Chair: Finn Ole Semrau, Kiel Institute for the World Economy | |
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Unveiling the Green Trail: FDI, Global Value Chains, and Firm Pollution in China 1: Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany; 2: Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, and University of Dundee We study how foreign ownership and firms’ positions in global value chains jointly shape pollution abatement in Chinese manufacturing. Using linked firm-level data on production, trade, and water pollution for 2003–2013, we analyze abatement of chemical oxygen demand and ammonia-nitrogen emissions. Foreign-owned firms abate more pollution than domestic firms on average, but this advantage declines with upstreamness and disappears in upstream production stages. We show that the foreign-ownership productivity premium follows a similar pattern, helping explain the weaker abatement performance upstream. The results reveal an upstreamness bias in the environmental benefits of foreign ownership. | |