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Aaqnalysis on Co2 emissions transferred from developed economies to China through trade / Zhang, Wencheng; Peng, Shuijun

Zhang, Wencheng	Article
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Based on a global input–output model, this paper investigates the CO2 emission transfer between China and developed economies through trade. The results show that approximately 15–23 percent of China's production-based emissions during 1995–2009 were induced by the production of goods and services satisfying final demand in developed economies. Decomposition of emission transfers shows that trade of intermediate products played a significant role in emission transfer from developed economies to China. Most developed economies have consumption-based emission responsibilities that are higher than their production-based responsibilities, whereas China's consumption-based responsibility is significantly lower than its production-based responsibility. We argue that a fair and efficient carbon accounting approach should take CO emission transfers from developed economies to developing economies into consideration. It is important that China and its developed trade partners cooperate in reducing emission transfers.

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Co2 Emission Transfer ; Consumption-Based Emissions ; Multi-Regional Input – Output Model ; Production-Based Emissions

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Human Capital Expansion and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Firm-level Evidence from China / Wu, Lamei ; Peng, Shuijun ; Chen, Guifu

Chen, Guifu	Journal Article
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Firms actively participate in the production of the global value chain (GVC), which is an important driving force for economic development. Using a difference-in-difference method, our research shows that industries that are relatively more human-capital intensive experienced a larger GVC position upgrading after 2003 than they had in prior years. Second, mechanism analysis shows that human capital expansion increases firms’ GVC position not only through an imported intermediate input effect but also through an innovation effect. Third, this study shows that increases in the college-educated labor force have a heterogeneous effect on a firm's GVC position across firms’ various characteristics. Human capital expansion has the largest positive effect on state-owned firms relative to foreign and domestic private firms. Human capital expansion has also significantly improved the GVC position of firms located in China's eastern and central regions. The findings of this study indicate that it helps upgrading the GVC position of Chinese firms.

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Global Value Chain Position ; Human Capital Expansion ; Imported Intermediate Input Effect

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