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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111192
	The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis
	Demena B.A.; Afesorgbor S.K.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	138
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
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
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204625
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
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Demena B.A.,Afesorgbor S.K.. The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis[J],2020,138.
APA	Demena B.A.,&Afesorgbor S.K..(2020).The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis.Energy Policy,138.
MLA	Demena B.A.,et al."The effect of FDI on environmental emissions: Evidence from a meta-analysis".Energy Policy 138(2020).