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Foreign Direct Investment and Pollution Havens

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It has been often argued that pollution-intensive industries locate in places with weak environmental standards, turning these locations into “pollution havens”. The present paper tests the pollution haven hypothesis employing a matched data on foreign direct investment flows and environmental stringency for Eastern Europe. Exploiting the panel data properties we are able to address omitted variable bias, specification, and measurement errors, which weaken many empirical studies. Our results suggest that environmental stringency indeed affects location choice in Eastern Europe. However, weak environmental levies are a significant attraction for foreign direct investment only from developing and transition countries.

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  • John King, 2011. "Foreign Direct Investment and Pollution Havens," Journal of Economics and Econometrics, Economics and Econometrics Society, vol. 54(1), pages 39-47.
    • Handle: RePEc:eei:journl:v:54:y:2011:i:1:p:39-47
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    Keywords

    FDI; Environmental Economics and Policy; Environmental Stringency; International Relations; Trade; Pollution Haven Hypothesis.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy

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