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| Author: | Xing, Y. Kolstad, C. D. |
| Title: | Do Lax Environmental Regulations Attract Foreign Investment? |
| Journal: | Environmental and Resource Economics
2002 : JAN, VOL. 21:1, p. 1-22 |
| Index terms: | ENVIRONMENT REGULATIONS FOREIGN INVESTMENT |
| Freeterms: | FDI |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | There has been considerable controversy over the empirical significance of the theoretically predicted pollution haven hypothesis Generally empirical papers have failed to find an effect on industrial location of weaker or stricter environmental regulations In this paper the authors find confirmation of theoretical predictions. The authors present a statistical test of the impact of environmental regulation on the capital movement of polluting industries The empirical study is conducted by examining foreign direct investment (FDI) of several US industries, representing industries with high pollution control costs (chemicals and primary metals) as well as industries with more modest pollution control costs (electrical and non-electrical machinery transportation equipment, and food products). |
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