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Does the quality of political institutions matter for the effectiveness of environmental taxes? : an empirical analysis on CO2 emissions
Baiardi, Donatella; Scabrosetti, Simona - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388041
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Does the quality of political institutions matter for the effectiveness of environmental taxes? : an empirical analysis on CO2 emissions
Baiardi, Donatella; Scabrosetti, Simona - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317521
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New insight into the causal linkage between economic expansion, FDI, coal consumption, pollutant emissions and urbanization in South Africa
Joshua, Udi; Bekun, Festus Victor; Sarkodie, Samuel A. - 2020
This study examines the relationship between foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth by incorporating the role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The different order of integration from the unit root test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171566
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Trade and FDI thresholds of CO2 emissions for a green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This research focuses on assessing how improving openness influences CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on 49 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2018 divided into: (i) 44 countries in SSA for the period 2000-2012; and (ii) 49 countries for the period 2006- 2018. Openness is measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301751
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Trade, foreign direct investment, and pollution abatement
Sharma, Shruti - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of tariff liberalization and foreign direct investment on pollution from a plant …-level perspective. It considers how globalization impacts plant-level investment in pollution abatement expenditure. Popular hypotheses … on trade and pollution cite the pollution haven effect - that trade leads to a worsening of environmental conditions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101594
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114612
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704340
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Does lax environmental regulation attract FDI when accounting for "third-country" effects?
Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2008 - This draft: August 2008
This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976844
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The welfare effects of opening to foreign direct investment in polluting sectors
Galinato, Gregmar I.; Graciano, Tim A.; Zhao, Xin - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490818
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Direktinvestitionen und Umweltschutz : die empirische Evidenz
Schwaab, Jan; Busch, Andreas A. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001550676