Title :
An Empirical Study on the Correlation between Environmental Protection and Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Nanjing Forestry Univ., Nanjing, China
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;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6579-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998687
