TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Leisner, Jonathan
AU  - Munch, Jakob R.
AU  - Nielsen, August Twile
AU  - Schaur, Georg
        TI  - The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Firm-Level Carbon Emissions
        PY  - 2023/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16556
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16556
        AB  - We use Danish firm-level data to examine the causal link between carbon emissions, offshoring, and import competition. Offshoring reduces firms' emission intensity but increases their production. Import competition reduces firms' production without affecting their emission intensity. For Denmark, these effects imply that observed offshoring trends reduced the overall manufacturing emission intensity while import competition did not. However, despite the emission reducing effects in local manufacturing, offshoring did not affect global emissions. Furthermore, import competition substantially increased global emissions. Therefore, based on offshoring and Chinese import competition, our results suggest that international trade may be bad for the global environment.
        KW  - carbon emissions
KW  - offshoring
KW  - import competition
        ER  -