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Does the development of the service outsourcing industry enhance green product exports? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China
This paper considers the establishment of service outsourcing demonstration cities in China as a quasi-natural experiment, employing firm data from national tax survey data and Customs Database to investigate the impact of high-end services development in developing countries on the scale of green product exports. The results of the Heckman two-stage model indicate that the development of the service outsourcing industry not only increases the probability of green product exports by manufacturing firms but also significantly enhances the growth of green product exports. This positive effect is primarily attributed to the agglomeration of regional service sectors, enhancements in firms' green innovation capabilities, and upgrades in green product quality. The heterogeneity analysis reveals a stronger impact of service outsourcing demonstration city development in smaller cities, cities with stricter environmental regulations, larger enterprises, and foreign-invested firms. Further analysis using more granular firm-product-level data indicates that the impact of service outsourcing demonstration cities on green product exports varies across different production stages and trade modes. This study provides valuable insights for developing countries to enhance their green international competitiveness given the global division of labor and rising green trade barriers.
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Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.