Exporting and electricity consumption: new microeconomic evidence from manufacturing firms in China
- 14 August 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Economics Letters
- Vol. 28 (14) , 1226-1233
Abstract
We investigate the relationship between firm exporting and energy consumption using newly matched manufacturing data from China. We reconfirm that exporting is negatively correlated with electricity consumption. Moreover, we document novel evidence that foreign exporters consume more electricity than domestic exporters, which supports the pollution haven hypothesis.Keywords
Funding Information
- Beijing Social Science Fund (19LJB001)
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