Environmental Regulations and the Environmental Effect of FDI

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Abstract

This paper presents the hypothesis that tightening environmental regulation of a country would improve the effect of inward FDI on its environment. Estimations of a sample of 101 countries over the period 2006-2016 confirmed the hypothesis. The results also provide indirect evidence that countries with weak environmental regulations attract polluting FDI and might deter “clean” FDI.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalThe Empirical Economics Letters
Volume23
Issue number3
StatePublished - Mar 2024

Keywords

  • Environmental regulations
  • Investments, Foreign
  • Economic policy

Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Environmental Law

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