Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324127 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] PSL Quarterly Review [ISSN:] 2037-3643 [Volume:] 78 [Issue:] 312 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 27-50
Publisher: 
Associazione Economia civile, Rome
Abstract: 
Development depends on a nation's ability to produce sophisticated goods, making economic complexity crucial. Considered as an ecological sophistication of technological, social, and cultural factors, ecological structural change, the core of Green New Developmentalism, can address environmental and socio-economic challenges, particularly in developing countries. As green policies can act as drivers of structural changes, eco-innovations, and international green competitiveness, this paper examines the impact of green policies on green export competitiveness, testing the strictly strong version of the Porter hypothesis and evaluating the moderating effect of economic complexity and pollution intensity. This paper used a panel dataset covering 40 OECD countries from 1990 to 2016, and the results indicate that stringent environmental regulations positively impact green exports only in the medium term. When the moderating factors are introduced, stringent green policies become effective in the short term, and their positive impact increases with the country's economic complexity and pollution intensity. Combining stringent environmental policies and green economic sophistication could allow for integrating economic growth, sustainable production, and international green competitiveness.
Subjects: 
international green competitiveness
Environmental Policy Stringency index
moderating factors
economic complexity
ecological structural change
JEL: 
O11
O14
Q56
Q57
F14
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Document Type: 
Article

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