Does outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) affect the home country’s environmental quality? The case of China

Hao, Yu; Guo, Yunxia; Guo, Yitong; Wu, Haitao; Ren, Siyu

doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2019.08.012

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“…With the rapid growth of the foreign direct investment (the ODI), the research on the spillover effect of the ODI were gradually increasing. Through the analysis of China's provincial panel data, it was found that the ODI would have adverse impact on the local environment, but the technology reverse spillover effect brought by ODI improved the domestic technology level (Hao et al, 2020). Some scholars believed that the technology spillover of the ODI had an important impact on the industrial structure of emerging economies as well as their dependence on domestic absorptive capacity.…”

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Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China

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Different from the existing literature which only studied the unilateral impact of the FDI or the ODI on economic growth, this paper took both the FDI and the ODI into the analysis framework of international capital flow on economic growth, and tried to introduce the mediating effect model to test the transmission mechanism and influence effect of international capital two-way flow on the economic growth. The results showed that both the FDI and the ODI can significantly improve the quality of economic growth, and the role of the FDI was stronger than that of the ODI. At the same time, the FDI and the ODI had obvious regional heterogeneity in promoting the quality of economic growth. International capital flow mainly requires three mediating effects to improve the quality of economic growth, which are the employment, the technology spillover as well as the output efficiency. The three effects of the FDI have a played significant role in promoting the quality of economic growth, while the ODI mainly plays a role through the improvement of output efficiency and technology reverse spillover. There are also significant regional differences in mediating effects.

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Section: Technology Spillovermentioning

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Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China

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“…Therefore, the impact of FDI on the environment is also defined by what the source country of FDI is seeking. According to Hao et al [ 55 ], this is disaggregated into three categories: resource-seeking, market-seeking and technology/efficiency-seeking. Resource-seeking consists of companies investing in countries with an abundance of resources (human or natural), while market-seeking denotes the search for countries with market potential.…”

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Is the Relocation of Polluting Industries Prompted by FDI Flow and Stock, Globalisation, Corruption and Regulation?

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Caetano

Marques

2021

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Can globalisation and foreign direct investment shape sustainable development? Foreign direct investment is one of the main drivers for the transfer of polluting industries. With this in mind, the main objective of this research is to identify the role played by foreign direct investment (flow and stock), globalisation (de jure and de facto), corruption and regulatory quality in environmental degradation and sustainable development. To accomplish this objective, and to link the relationships under analysis to the level of development, a comparison between a group of developing countries and a group of developed ones was performed. The results confirm the suitability of the division of the countries by revealing various effects. This analysis was conducted from 1996 to 2017 and by recurring to the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model. This study proves that foreign investors play a vital role in reaching sustainable development. Measures must be implemented to eliminate the distortions that cause a company based in a country with strict environmental regulations to relocate its production to one with lax environmental regulations. However, these measures need to be combined with complementary measures that encourage developing economies to agree to a possible slowdown in their economic growth if sufficiently compensated for this reduced growth.

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“…The indirect impacts of ICT on environment can be divided into scale effect, structure effect, and technology effect; therefore, the comprehensive effect is uncertain (Hao et al, 2020;Avom et al, 2020). The scale effect refers to the fact that digital transformation promotes industrial expansion and leads to increased pollution.…”

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How Does Industrial Digitalization Affect Enterprise Environmental Performance?

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Song

2021

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Despite the increasing use of digital technology in industrial production, how industrial digitalization affects the environmental performance of production activities remains unclear. This research contributes to the literature on the relationship between industrial digitalization and enterprise environmental performance by employing a large sample of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Results indicate that the environmental performance of manufacturing enterprises has been significantly improved in the process of industrial digital transformation. Structural and technology effects are the influencing mechanisms. Industrial digitalization reduces the production scale of heavy polluting enterprises and improves product innovation and green total factor productivity, but it has an insignificant effect on total factor productivity. Moreover, industrial digitalization improves enterprise environmental performance by introducing front-end cleaner production technologies, rather than by increasing pipe-end pollutant treatment facilities.JEL Classification: Q56, O13, L86

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Does outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) affect the home country’s environmental quality? The case of China

Cited by 198 publications

References 51 publications

Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China

Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China

Is the Relocation of Polluting Industries Prompted by FDI Flow and Stock, Globalisation, Corruption and Regulation?

How Does Industrial Digitalization Affect Enterprise Environmental Performance?

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