Research Visit – Environment and Development Economics

While at Berkeley, I would mostly be working on my sole-authored paper. This paper links trade and the environment in Brazil. Using the major trade liberalization episode in the early 1990s as a plausible source of exogenous variation, my paper investigates two hypotheses. First, increased international competition in manufactured goods negatively impacted the least productive industries. This so-called “deindustrialization” of Brazil may have reduced its pollution emissions, especially if these less productive industries happened to be the most polluting. However, to the extent that Brazil responded to market opening by becoming a pollution haven, pollution emissions may have increased.

This research visit will allow me to collaborate with world leading experts on the issues of the environment, climate change and the measurement of their consequences. The project involves not only an analysis part but also the creation of a dataset using data science (remote sensing) in order to build the kind of pollution emission measurements developed countries have but developing economics lack. Give Reed Walker’s research agenda,(associate professor at Berkeley who hosts me), is the ideal person to collaborate with, as he worked on both of these issues.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Garred

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Partner:

University of California, Berkeley

Discipline:

Business

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Education

University:

University of Ottawa

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