Investigation of the environmental Kuznets curve for carbon emissions in Malaysia: Do foreign direct investment and trade matter?

Lau, Lin‐Sea; Choong, Chee‐Keong; Eng, Yoke‐Kee

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.01.002

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“…They find strong evidence that polluting industries tend to invest more in countries with laxer environmental regulations, which supports PHH [15]. Using the bounds testing approach and Granger causality methodology, Lau et al (2014) find that both FDI and trade lead to degradation in environmental quality in Malaysia [16].…”

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Spatial Econometric Model Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Haze Pollution in China

Tang¹,

Li²,

Yang³

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Increasing attention is being paid to spatial distribution characteristics of haze pollution and its relation with socioeconomic factors. This study investigates the spatial autocorrelation of haze pollution in China and the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on haze pollution in China using a panel data of 31 provinces over the period 2000-12. Using a widely used spatial autocorrelation index, Moran's I values, the estimation results suggest that haze pollution in China has strong spatial autocorrelation and spatial clustering phenomenon. Then, our analysis using spatial econometric models further confirms the significant spatial dependence and spatial spillover effects of haze pollution in China. Meanwhile, we also find a significantly positive relationship between FDI and haze pollution in China, in which an increase of 1% in FDI, haze pollution in China will increase by 0.0235%. Based on these results, we provide some important policy implications for the government to control haze pollution.

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Spatial Econometric Model Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Haze Pollution in China

Tang¹,

Li²,

Yang³

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Similarly, in the energy economics literature provides, many studies have investigated the EKC hypothesis by using time-series data for individual countries. For instance, Akbostanci et al (2009), Iwata et al (2010), Shahbaz et al (2012), Tiwari et al (2013), Lau et al (2014) and Ozturk and Al-Mulali (2015) have validated the EKC for Turkey, France, Pakistan, India, Malaysia and Cambodia, respectively. Tamazian et al (2009) argue that the omission of financial development from carbon dioxide emissions functions leads to erroneous empirical results.…”

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Financial development and environmental quality: The way forward

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The present paper re-examines the asymmetric impact of financial development on environmental quality in Pakistan for the period 1985Q1 to 2014Q4. A comprehensive index of financial development is generated using Bank-and Stock market-based financial development indicators. The results show that inefficient use of energy adversely affects the environmental quality. This suggests adoption of energy efficient technology at both production and consumption levels. These technologies would be helpful to improve environmental quality, enhance the productivity in long-run and save energy. Bank-based financial development also impedes the environment. The government should encourage lenders to ease the funding for energy sector and allocate financial resources for environment friendly businesses rather than wasting them in consumer financing.

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“…(2) Export could contribute to innovation through technology / productivity effect. The government have spent on research and development, replace the obsolete and dirty technology with new technology to improve environmental quality (Lau et al, 2014) and energy intensity. Thus, quality of human capital and technology could improve and boosted the industrial sector.…”

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Long-Run Elasticities of Electricity Consumption, FDI, Export and GDP in Malaysia

Bekhet¹,

Othman²

2014

IJEF

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This paper examines the co-integration and long run elasticity between electricity consumption (EC) and economic activities (FDI, export and industrial value added) for the 1971-2011 period. The F-Bound test was employed to estimate the long run relationship among the variables and logarithmic multiple regression model to determine the magnitude of changes in electricity consumption when there is a changes in economic activities. It shows a significant long run relationship among electricity consumption, FDI, export and industrial value added. This means that all the aforesaid variables achieve equilibrium in the long run and there is a possibility of causal relationship among variables at least in one direction. Also, it shows an evidence to the future researcher and academician particularly to developed general understanding and guidance for policy formulation.

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Investigation of the environmental Kuznets curve for carbon emissions in Malaysia: Do foreign direct investment and trade matter?

Cited by 568 publications

References 45 publications

Spatial Econometric Model Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Haze Pollution in China

Spatial Econometric Model Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Haze Pollution in China

Financial development and environmental quality: The way forward

Long-Run Elasticities of Electricity Consumption, FDI, Export and GDP in Malaysia

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