Environmental Regulations, Outward FDI and Heterogeneous Firms: Are Countries Used as Pollution Havens?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 317-352

  Manderson, Edward ^a   Kneller, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental regulation; Foreign investment; Pollution haven

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; POLLUTION;

EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREIGN INVESTMENT; HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS; HOST COUNTRIES; INTERNATIONALISATION; OUTWARD FDI;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; HETEROGENEITY; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; PREDICTION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EID: 84857041642     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9500-z     Document Type: Article

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