Does environmental regulation drive away inbound foreign direct investment? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
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In this paper, the authors investigated whether environmental regulation affects inbound foreign direct investment and found that tougher environmental regulation leads to less FDI in countries with better environmental protections than China.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2016-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment.read more
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Table 2: Main results 
Table 3, Checks on the identifying assumption 
Figure 1: Geographic distribution of TCZ cities 
Figure 2: Time trends of FDI inflows in TCZ and non-TCZ cities, and their difference 
Figure 3: Kernel density of 500 estimates 
Table 4, Heterogeneous effects across industries and triple-difference estimation
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