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Ownership and Pollution in Vietnam’s Manufacturing Firms
| Author | Eric D. Ramstetter |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2011. 3 |
| No. | 2011-08 |
| Download | 228KB |
Contents Introduction
This paper has examined emission propensities by industry for MNCs, SOEs, and private firms in Vietnam in 2002 and 2004. Simple descriptive statistics suggest that MNCs tended to have relatively low propensities in a few industries while SOEs tended to have relatively high ratios in a few more industries. More rigorous analysis then asked if these propensities differed among ownership groups after accounting for the influences of other factor demands and technology intensity. These results suggested SOEs tended to have relatively high emission propensities in a number of cases and that MNCs also had relatively high emission propensities in a few cases. However, in most industry-year combinations, it was difficult to find statistically significant differences in emission propensities among ownership groups.