Carbon Border Adjustment, Green Compliance Capability, and Export Readiness in the Global South: A Global CBAM-GCCI Panel Study

This dataset provides the replication package for the study titled “Carbon Border Adjustment, Green Compliance Capability, and Export Readiness in the Global South: A Global CBAM-GCCI Panel Study.” The study examines how EU-facing Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) exposure and national green-compliance readiness jointly shape export readiness and development vulnerability across a global country-year panel covering 2007-2024.

The dataset includes processed HS07-based EU-facing export exposure measures, direct CBAM, near-CBAM, and broader green-compliance product classifications, the weighted CBAM exposure index, alternative exposure-weight specifications, normalized exposure intensity, Green Composite Capability Index (GCCI) variables, macroeconomic and governance controls, diagnostic outputs, robustness tables, and R scripts used for empirical estimation.

The empirical framework combines three layers: product-level CBAM exposure construction, GCCI readiness construction, and panel econometric testing. The main econometric approach uses two-way fixed effects with Driscoll-Kraay robust standard errors, supported by robustness checks using alternative exposure weights, normalized exposure intensity, exchange-rate exclusion, and group-wise estimations.

The original source data were obtained from CEPII-BACI HS07 trade data, World Development Indicators, and Worldwide Governance Indicators. This repository contains the cleaned and processed analytical files, documentation, variable dictionary, source register, and replication scripts required to reproduce the tables, diagnostics, and empirical results reported in the manuscript.