Hecker, Jonas (A.A. 2024/2025) Greening trade or diverting pollution? The impact of EU PTAs on dirty and green exports. Tesi di Laurea in International economics, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Marco Simoni, pp. 97. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Background and working hypotheses. Trade agreements, environmental provisions and developing-country adjustment. EU market power and the Brussels effect regulation without formal enforcement. Agreement design and the role of environmental provisions. Time horizon: short-term sorting versus long-term upgrading. Research design and data. Case selection and comparative logic. Data sources and variable construction. Empirical strategy and hypothesis mapping. Descriptive overview of export structures. Baseline export composition before EU agreements. Dirty and green export profiles across cases. EU vs world export patterns (pre-agreement). Results: EU-facing adjustment and destination gaps. Changes in export composition to the EU. EU–world composition gaps and evidence of sorting. Explaining heterogeneity: agreement depth, implementation and shocks. Tracing heterogeneity: why Costa Rica and Vietnam diverge. Costa Rica deep dive: policy expectations and product-level drivers. Vietnam deep dive: policy expectations and product-level drivers. Greening vs diversion: what the mixed patterns imply for carbon leakage. Limits of agreement design and time horizons.

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Bibliografia: pp. 69-74.

Thesis Type:	Master's Degree Thesis
Institution:	Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program:	Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair:	International economics
Thesis Supervisor:	Simoni, Marco
Thesis Co-Supervisor:	Taraborrelli, Angelo
Academic Year:	2024/2025
Session:	Extraordinary
Deposited by:	Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2026 15:10
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2026 15:10
URI:	https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/46350

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