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Export market participation and environmental actions of enterprises in Vietnam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2021

Uchenna Efobi Open the ORCID record for Uchenna Efobi [Opens in a new window]
Uchenna Efobi*
Affiliation:
Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research, KM 10 Idiroko Road, Ota Ogun State, Nigeria Institute of Business Research, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: ucefobi@gmail.com
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Abstract

The outcome of environmental actions from participation in the export market are examined by unpacking some mechanisms that explain the estimated relationship. The empirical strategy utilizes the variation in the distance between the location of the sampled enterprises and the top 25 destinations of Vietnamese exports across sectors, and the weight of each sampled export to total exports in each period, to obtain exogenous variation in the enterprise's export market participation. The result shows a positive relationship between the enterprise's export participation and its overall engagement in environmental actions (such as the sum of its environmental actions, the sum of actions in the investments in equipment towards environmental issues, and total expenditure for the purchase of equipment for environmental actions). Possible mechanisms are international standardization, national certification, and strong enforcement of environmental regulations from export market engagement.

Keywords

environment actionsexport marketsmall and medium enterprisestradeVietnam

JEL classification

Q5: Environmental Economics F64: Environment K32: Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law F18: Trade and Environment
Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2022 , pp. 333 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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