The Effect of Environmental Regulation on the Locational Choice of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment
| dc.creator | Kirkpatrick, Colin | |
| dc.creator | Shimamoto, Kenichi | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:38:52Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:09:46Z | |
| dc.description | This paper assesses the impact of environmental regulation in host countries on Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) decision-making. It tests the pollution haven hypothesis using data on national environmental regulation standards and Japanese inward FDI in five dirty industries (iron and steel industry, non-ferrous metals industry, chemicals industry, paper and pulp industry, non-metallic products industry). The results do not support the pollution hypothesis. On the contrary, inward Japanese FDI appears to be attracted to countries which have committed themselves to a transparent and stable environment regulatory environment, suggesting that the quality of the regulatory framework in terms of its certainty and transparency has a greater influence on foreign investors' choice of location than the level of the environmental regulatory measures. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.30584 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30584/files/ia050010.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30584 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/545754 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30584 | |
| dc.title | The Effect of Environmental Regulation on the Locational Choice of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment | |
| dc.type | Text |