Cao, Xun; Wu, Mingqin; Zhu, Lianming - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic firms’ air pollution emissions in a … developing country context. We provide quasi-natural experiment evidence from China, using a plausibly exogeneous relaxation of … FDI regulations upon China’s WTO accession in 2001. Based on a panel of domestic major polluting firms of 1998-2007, we …