From the 1970’s, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flowed into host countries. With the development of economy in host … countries the environment deteriorated. The overall goal of this paper is to estimate whether the impacts of FDI positive or … composition and pollution density of a province, in which pollution density is created to estimate the environmental effect of FDI …

From the 1970's, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flowed into host countries. With the development of economy in host … countries the environment deteriorated. The overall goal of this paper is to estimate whether the impacts of FDI positive or … composition and pollution density of a province, in which pollution density is created to estimate the environmental effect of FDI …

reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the hypothesis of energy saving technology transfer via FDI. However, such … apply panel estimation techniques and tests. The results do not confirm the hypothesis that FDI inflows reduce energy … intensities of developing countries in general. Interactions of FDI with country-specific characteristics do not show significant …

This paper investigates the recent surge of FDI in Nigeria, which is poor in terms of income but rich in natural … resources. This study examines empirically whether FDI is resource seeking in Nigeria and its determining factors. Applying time … series technique this paper observes that FDI flow to Nigeria is resource-seeking FDI during 1970-2006. In long run, the …

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a … major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that in the sectors natural resources extraction and refining …

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a … major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that in the sectors natural resources extraction and refining …

of "sand in the wheels of commerce" and thus has a negative impact on FDI inflows, but above the TLCI, corruption … functions to "grease the wheels" and has a positive impact on FDI inflows. The study is based on secondary data collected from …

This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two …-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are … possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is a multinational firm, and the other firm is a national firm; (ii) and …