Does environmental regulation drive away inbound foreign direct investment? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Journal of Development Economics - Tập 123 - Trang 73-85 - 2016
Xiqian Cai1, Yi Lu2, Mingqin Wu3, Linhui Yu4
1Institute of Economics, School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, China
2Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
3School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, China
4School of Economics, Zhejiang University, China

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