Carbon dioxide emissions and environmental pollution caused by international trade: empirical analysis using industry-level world data

• Project/Area Number: 25380346
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Tokai University (2014-2015); Kyushu Sangyo University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Honma Satoshi 東海大学, 政治経済学部, 教授 (70368869)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YOSHIDA Yushi 滋賀大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40309737)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 環境と貿易 / 貿易に内在化した汚染 / 汚染逃避地仮説 / 汚染収束 / 環境経済学 / 環境効率 / 地球温暖化 / 貿易 / 包絡分析法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We analyzed impacts of international trade on CO2 emissions, by taking account of intermediate trade. The empirical results show that the change rate of the pollution terms of trade with respect to trade-induced CO2 emissions is negatively related to the growth rate of GDP per capita and the level of the initial PTT. These results support the pollution emission converges in the long-run. This slightly differs the pollution haven hypothesis that asserts that pollution-intensive industries move away from developed countries to developing countries.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 我が国の製造業における電力消費のエネルギー効率 (2015)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Journal Title: 中央大学経済研究所年報 Volume: 46 Pages: 297-317
  • NAID: 120006639099
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] An Account of Pollution Emission Embodied in Global Trade: PGT1 and PGT2 Database (2014)
  • Author(s): Honma, Satoshi and Yoshida, Yushi
  • Journal Title: MPRA Paper Volume: 57489 Pages: 1-75
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Environmental and Economic Efficiencies in the Asia-Pacific Region (2014)
  • Author(s): Honma, Satoshi
  • Journal Title: Journal of Asia-Pacific Business Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Pages: 122-135
  • DOI: 10.1080/10599231.2014.904185
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A panel data parametric frontier technique for measuring total-factor energy efficiency: An application to Japanese regions (2014)
  • Author(s): Hu, Jin-Li and Honma, Satoshi
  • Journal Title: Energy Volume: 78 Pages: 732-739
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.10.066
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A Comparative Study of Energy Efficiency of OECD Countries: An Application of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (2014)
  • Author(s): Hu, Jin-Li and Honma, Satoshi
  • Journal Title: Energy Procedia Volume: 61 Pages: 2280-2283
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.447
• [Journal Article] Industry-level total-factor energy efficiency in developed countries: A Japan-centered analysis (2014)
  • Author(s): Honma, Satoshi and Hu, JIn-Li
  • Journal Title: Applied Energy Volume: 119 Pages: 67-78
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.12.049
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measurement of efficiency (2014)
  • Author(s): Honma, Satoshi
  • Journal Title: MPRA Paper Volume: 56950 Pages: 1-35
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Panel data parametric frontier technique for measuring total-factor energy efficiency: Application to Japanese regions (2014)
  • Author(s): Satoshi Honma, Jin-Li Hu
  • Journal Title: MPRA Paper Volume: 54304 Pages: 1-49
• [Presentation] Metafrontier analysis for energy efficiency of regions in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Satoshi Honma
  • Organizer: East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Place of Presentation: 台湾、台北市
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-07
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Testing the pollution haven effect: Accounting international intermediate goods trade (2015)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟県、新潟市
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-25
• [Presentation] Testing the pollution haven effect: Accounting international intermediate goods trade (2015)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟大学（新潟県新潟市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-24
• [Presentation] Optimal policies for international recycling between developed and developing countries (2014)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Organizer: 日本応用経済学会
  • Place of Presentation: 中央大学(東京都八王子市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-15
• [Presentation] Do a Kuznets curve and convergence exist in environmental efficiency?
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Organizer: 環境経済・政策学会2013年大会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸大学
• [Presentation] Does international trade improve environmental efficiency?
  • Author(s): Satoshi Honma
  • Organizer: The 4th Congress of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Place of Presentation: Pusan
• [Book] 『環境効率の実証分析』 (2016)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Total Pages: 152
  • Publisher: 東海大学出版会
• [Book] 「経済成長と経済政策」『エネルギー効率と経済成長 』第8章 (2016)
  • Author(s): 本間聡
  • Total Pages: 25
  • Publisher: 中央大学出版部