Hübler, Michael; Keller, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing … countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity … reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the hypothesis of energy saving technology transfer via FDI. However, such …