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Green havens and pollution havens
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570741
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098742
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The Impact of FDI on CO2 Emissions in Latin America
Blanco, Luisa R. - 2014
This paper uses panel Granger causality tests to study the relationship between sector specific FDI and CO2 emissions. Using a sample of 18 Latin American countries for the 1980-2007 period, we find causality running from FDI in polluting intensive industries (“the dirty sector”) to CO2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051700
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Modelling the Nexus between Pollutant Emission, Energy Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth : New Insights from China
Magazzino, Cosimo - 2020
Most nations are predominately preoccupied with the need to increase economic growth amidst pressure for increased energy consumption. However, higher energy consumption from fossil fuel has its environmental implication(s) especially in a high industrial economy like China. In this context, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831626
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315905
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Environmental Regulation : An Incentive for FDI
Dijkstra, Bouwe; Mathew, Anuj; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2006
Empirical evidence has so far failed to find firm support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis that lenient environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054268
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Foreign direct investment and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa : does environmental degradation matter?
Dada, James Temitope; Akinlo, Taiwo - In: Future Business Journal 7 (2021), pp. 1-10
This paper investigates the threshold effect of environmental degradation on the FDI-poverty nexus in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1986-2018. The study used panel threshold regression for the empirical analysis. The evidence from threshold regression using different measures of poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548858
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The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the environment : market perspectives and evidence from China
Zheng, Jiajia; Sheng, Pengfei - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-15
Foreign direct investment (FDI) may have a positive effect on the level of pollution in host countries, as described by … the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH). However, this kind of effect may depend on the economic conditions in host countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753540
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Assessing the role of foreign direct investment in environmental sustainability : a spatial semiparametric panel approach
Xie, Qichang; Yan, Yingkun; Wang, Xu - In: Economic change & restructuring 56 (2023) 2, pp. 1263-1295
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252486
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Environmental regulations and firm-level FDI : evidence from China's 11th 5-year plan
Tan, Yong; Shi, Qing; Xuan, Siyuan; Yang, Guang - In: International studies of economics 18 (2023) 1, pp. 21-52
, which imposed different pollution reduction targets across provinces, and examine its impact on firm-level FDI activities … policy endogeneity, missing variables, and expectation effect issues, which provides positive support for the pollution haven …
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