Services Trade Opening and Manufacturing Environmental Performance
06 May 2025 2:00 pm CEST
Join Cosimo Beverelli as he explores trade opening in the services sector and their link to the environmental performance of manufacturing sectors
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Venue
online (Zoom webinar)
Description
Abstract
Does trade opening in the services sector improve the environmental performance of manufacturing sectors that intensively use services in their production process? The main channel through which this can occur is through improved access to technology that enables lower emissions, such as when access to high-quality engineering services allows adopting renewable technologies. In a sample of 49 countries and 17 manufacturing industries between 2014 and 2018, we show a positive impact of upstream services trade opening on downstream manufacturing emission intensity in production, and we quantify the counterfactual effect of further liberalization. Authors: Cosimo BEVERELLI, Matteo FIORINI, Enxhi TRESA.
Registration
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Speaker
Cosimo Beverelli is a tenure-track researcher in the Economics Department at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which he joined in 2023, and Global Economics Programme Associate in the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Between 2009 and 2023, he worked as a research economist in the Economics Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization and held teaching positions at the University of Geneva and the World Trade Institute in Bern. He was also a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, in 2018–2019. He received his PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute, Geneva, in 2009. His papers have been published, among others, in the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and World Development. His current research interests primarily focus on the health and environmental impacts of trade policy.
Discussant
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This event is co-organised with the European University Institute (EUI) and the Research Centre International Economics (FIW). The seminar provides a forum for presentation and discussion of recent academic research in the field of international economics.
The event will be recorded.
Scientific Organiser(s):
Fabio Santeramo (European University Institute & University of Foggia)
Mahdi Ghodsi (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies)