Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
By M. Cole, Robert J. R. Elliott, Liyun Zhang. 2017
204 citations recorded by the source corpus.
We review the literature that investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the environment. After reviewing the theoretical literature, we discuss two broad strands of research. First, the impact of environmental regulations on the choice of plant location and second, the impact of FDI on the emissions of various pollutants and the related question of whether we can observe environmental spillovers from foreign to domestic firms. Finally, we review the more recent literature on environmental outsourcing as an alternative to FDI and conclude with suggestions for future research.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/de4d7a373adcb9339049cb6d5ba1617bf4cdeaf9
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
Citations in the corpus
- Determinants of CO2 emissions in European Union countries: Does environmental regulation reduce environmental pollution? (2020, background): “In this case, countries with weak environmental regulations, and no interest in increasing their environmental stringency, becoming pollution havens (Mabey and Mcnally, 1999).”
- How does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Pollution? Toward a Better Understanding of the Direct and Conditional Effects (2015, unknown): “…called pollution halo hypothesis, multinationals engaging in FDIs and applying universal environmental standards tend to transfer environment-friendly technology and management practices to their partners in the host country (Birdsall and Wheeler 1993; Zarsky 1999; Gallagher and Zarsky 2007).”