Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis

By Ulrich J. Wagner, C. Timmins. 2009

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment (2017, background): “Wagner & Timmins (53) Germany 1996–2003 GMM Yes for chemical industry”
The Impact of FDI on CO2 Emissions in Latin America (2013, neutral): “The empirical evidence has been mixed, with various studies finding no support for the pollution haven hypothesis (Mani and Wheeler, 1998; Eskeland and Harrison, 2003; MacDermott, 2009 and Wagner and Timmins, 2009).”
How does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Pollution? Toward a Better Understanding of the Direct and Conditional Effects (2015, neutral): “…level in the host country and pollution intensity of MNCs (Manderson and Kneller 2012); (vi) externalities associated with FDI agglomeration (Wagner and Timmins 2009), among others.2 Antweiler et al. (2001), Cole and Elliott (2005) suggest that pollution haven effects are hard to identify…”
Review of existing literature (2014, background): “Focusing on outward FDI flows of various industries within German manufacturing sector, Wagner and Timmins (2008) showed robust evidence of PHH for the chemical industry.”
Environmental Regulation and French Firms Location Abroad: An Economic Geography Model in an International Comparative Study (2012, neutral): “At the opposite,Wagner and Timmins (2009), using panel data on outward FDI flows of various industries in the German manufacturing sector, accounting for externalities associatedwith the FDI agglomeration effect and employing a GMM estimator to control for endogenous timevarying determinants of FDI…”
Why does emissions trading under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) not affect firms’ competitiveness? Empirical findings from the literature (2018, background): “For France, the preliminary results show significant reductions in employment but no within-firm carbon leakage (Wagner et al., 2014).”
Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization (2012, background): “Levinson and Taylor, 2008) is addressed along with the problem of the latent variables which are assumed in testing (Wagner and Timmins, 2009), and of idiosyncratic sector features (Cole t al.”