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The Impact of Environmental Management Level of Importing Countries on Korean Exports: Focusing on the Technology Level of Industries in Exporting Country

수출대상국 환경관리수준이 한국의 수출에 미치는 영향 연구

  • Lee, Bum-joon (Trade Research Institute, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Hwang, Yun-Seop (Department of International Business & Trade, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Ha, Jeong-Won (Department of International Business & Trade, Kyung Hee University)
  • Received : 2019.08.08
  • Accepted : 2019.08.22
  • Published : 2019.08.31
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Abstract

This study aims to determine whether the export volume of export country is affected by the strengthening of environmental management level of the importing country depending on the relative technology level of the importing country. To this end, a gravity model was established and the relative size of environmental management level was introduced, and how it affects the export was analyzed according to the difference of environmental management level between Korea and the importing country. The analysis of Korean industry by technology level (based on R&D investment) shows that countries with higher environmental management levels increase exports in both high and low technologies compared to Korea. On the other hand, exports of high-tech industries did not affect export growth in countries with lower environmental management than Korea.

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Acknowledgement

This paper was conducted in 2013 with the support of the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Foundation (NRF-2016SIA5B6925462).

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