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 …

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 …

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 …