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 …. In this study, we conduct research on the FDI’s effect on China’s CO2 emissions during the market-oriented reform. The …

direct investment (FDI) activities. We next take advantage of China's 11th Five-Year Plan as a quasi-natural experiment …, 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 …

The working paper concerns the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and its climate provision. It …