Zurück
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Frühjahrsem. |
| Dozierende | Tobias Erhardt (tobias.erhardt@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The underlying question that this course investigates is whether international trade is good or bad for the environment, as measured in terms of pollution levels. The course deals with international trade and environmental regulations, and discusses how these two issues influence global emissions, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. It introduces students to the research which investigates the effects of trade liberalization on the environment, the effects of environmental regulation on relocation and carbon leakage, and the effects of trade on pollution from consumption. Additionally, students will learn how to replicate existing studies in the field and practice this by writing a short empirical paper. The course starts by discussing the effects of trade liberalization on industrial pollution. An introduction to the topic covers the seminal contribution of Grossman and Krueger (1991) and their environmental Kuznets curve. The model in Antweiler et al. (2001) is used as the course’s theoretical basis. Their model allows the various effects of trade on the environment (scale, technique and composition effect) to be separated. Further, it provides a clear distinction between the pollution haven effect and the pollution haven hypothesis. Antweiler et al.’s (2001) empirical identification of the effects is discussed. The lecture also covers newer contributions to the empirical literature that try to decompose these three effects (e.g., Levinson 2009), as well as research which takes account of firm-level heterogeneity (e.g., Cherniwchan et al. 2016). Further, the course critically evaluates the evidence on the pollution haven effect, which suggests that industries and firms relocate as a result of environmental regulation. This section of the course also investigates subnational (e.g., Levinson 1999) and international (Kellenberg and Levinson 2014) waste trade flows. The last section of the course is dedicated to pollution caused by consumption (Davis and Kahn 2010). |
| Lernziele | 1) Understand the theoretical concepts and the derivation of the key hypotheses in the research field 2) Understand empirical approaches that test these hypotheses 3) Practice empirical work |
| Literatur | Antweiler, W., Copeland, B. R., & Taylor, M. S. (2001). Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?. American Economic Review, 91(4), 877-908. Cherniwchan, J., Copeland, B. R., & Taylor, M. S. (2016). Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results. NBER Working Paper No. w22636. Copeland, B. R., & Taylor, M. S. (2013). Trade and the environment: Theory and evidence. Princeton University Press. Davis, L. W., & Kahn, M. E. (2010). International trade in used vehicles: the environmental consequences of NAFTA. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(4), 58-82. Ederington, J., Levinson, A., & Minier, J. (2005). Footloose and pollution-free. Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1), 92-99. Frankel, J. A., & Rose, A. K. (2005). Is trade good or bad for the environment? Sorting out the causality. Review of Economics and Statistics, 87(1), 85-91. Grossman, G. M., & Krueger, A. B. (1991). Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement. NBER Working Paper No. w3914. Kellenberg, D. (2012). Trading wastes. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 64(1), 68-87. Kellenberg, D., & Levinson, A. (2014). Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1(1/2), 135-169. Kellenberg, D. (2015). The Economics of the International Trade of Waste. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 7(1), 109-125. Levinson, A. (1999). State taxes and interstate hazardous waste shipments. American Economic Review, 89(3), 666-677. Levinson, A. (2009). Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from US Manufacturing. American Economic Review, 99(5), 2177-2192. Levinson, A., & Taylor, M. S. (2008). Unmasking the pollution haven effect. International economic review, 49(1), 223-254. The full list of papers will be published in the outline of the course. |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Abgeschlossener Bachelor, Interest in empirical research and basic knowledge in econometrics. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Belegen in MOnA; Belegen = Anmeldung zur Prüfung. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|
Keine Einzeltermine verfügbar, bitte informieren Sie sich direkt bei den Dozierenden.
| Module |
Modul Wahlbereich (Master Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Modul Wahlbereich Energie und Klimawandel (Masterstudium: Sustainable Development (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2017)) Modul: Kernbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Masterstudium: Sustainable Development) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Semesterendprüfung |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Students have to write a short empirical paper. More detailed information on the empirical paper will be provided at the beginning of the course. The final grade will be calculated using the grade of the essay and the grade of the final exam (50% each). Written exam: 29.05.2018; 08:15-10:00; WWZ S13: A-Z. You can still withdraw from the examination by submitting a completed, signed form to our office from 27.03.18 until 06.04.18 / 12:00 o’clock. Withdrawals sent by email will not be accepted. You will find the examination withdrawal form on the Homepage of the Student Dean’s Office. Prior to 26.03.18, please only use MONA for withdrawing. The exam rooms will be published up to 25.05.18. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmeldung: Belegen |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | 1-6 0,1 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ, studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät |