New Climate Policy, Resource Abundance, and Sectoral FDI

• Main Authors: Doytch, Nadia, Elheddad, Mohamed, Perez-Sebastian, Fidel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2025
• Subjects: Biocapacity; FDI; Natural-resource curse; Panel data; Pollution-haven hypothesis; Sectoral analysis; Environmental Policy; Environmental Studies; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/314; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108362

Motivated by the call to action from the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 28, this paper analyzes the relationship between a country's level of biocapacity, subsoil assets, and sectoral FDI. A theoretical model is developed, with its main innovation being the consideration that bioc...