DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111192
论文题名: The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis
作者: Demena B.A. ; Afesorgbor S.K.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2020
卷: 138 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Emissions
; Environment
; FDI
; Meta-analysis
; Pollution halo hypothesis
; Pollution haven hypothesis
英文关键词: Economics
; Particulate emissions
; Domestic industries
; Empirical studies
; Environment
; Environmental costs
; Environmental emissions
; Foreign direct investments
; Meta analysis
; Pollution haven hypothesis
; Pollution
; emission
; empirical analysis
; environmental impact
; foreign direct investment
; green economy
; meta-analysis
; spillover effect
英文摘要: One important and frequently-raised issue about foreign direct investment (FDI) is the potentially negative consequences for the environment. The potential environmental cost due to increased emissions may undermine the economic gains associated with increases in FDI inflow. Although the literature is dominated with this adverse view of FDI on the environment, there is also a possibility that FDI can contribute to a cleaner environment, especially, if FDI comes with green technologies and this creates spillovers for domestic industries. Theoretically, the effect of FDI on the environment can be negative or positive. To deal with the theoretical ambiguity about the FDI-environment nexus, many empirical studies have been conducted but their results only reinforce the controversy as they produce contrasting results. We conduct a meta-analysis of the effect of FDI on environmental emissions using 65 primary studies that produce 1006 elasticities. Our results show that the underlying effect of FDI on environmental emissions is close to zero, however, after accounting for heterogeneity in the studies, we find that FDI significantly reduces environmental emissions. Results remain robust after disaggregating the effect for countries at different levels of development as well as for different pollutants. © 2019 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167117
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作者单位: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, 2518 AX, Netherlands; Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road E., N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Demena B.A.,Afesorgbor S.K.. The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis[J]. Energy Policy,2020-01-01,138