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Description:
This paper investigates the effect of export liberalization on firm-level water pollution. With data on Chinese firm-level water pollution around China's WTO accession, we identify a negative causal effect of export liberalization on firm-level water-pollution intensity utilizing the exogenous shock in trade policy uncertainty. Further analyses reveal two different effects: a "competition effect" that decreases water-pollution intensity and a "specialization effect" that increases water-pollution intensity. The competition effect dominates for non-exporting firms and the specialization effect only applies when firms export. Similarly, we find that export liberalization increases (decreases) firm-level aggregate water pollution when firms (do not) export