An Empirical Study on the Correlation between Environmental Protection and Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment

Author

Zhou Chunying

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Nanjing Forestry Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the correlation between environmental regulations and foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers. Ordinary least squares regression is applied to empirically study the impacts of environmental regulation to spillover effects of FDI from 1991 to 2009 in China. The results show that foreign direct investment has a significant spillover effects to China´s economic growth. Environmental regulation has positive effects on the improvement of FDI spillover effects. The management proficiency of environmental regulation in China needs updated, the technological advance and technology utilization in foreign-funded enterprises should be encouraged, and improve spillover effects of FDI to China´s economic growth.

Keywords

economics; environmental factors; investment; least mean squares methods; regression analysis; FDI spillover effect; economic growth; environmental protection; environmental regulation; foreign direct investment; foreign-funded enterprises; ordinary least squares regression; Correlation; Economics; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Indexes; Investments; Pollution; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998687

Filename

5998687