Networks, stocks, and climate change: A new approach to the study of foreign investment and the environment

• Main Authors: JORGENSON, Andrew, CLARK, Rob, KENTOR, Jeffery, RIEGER, Annika Marie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: foreign direct investment; environment; spillover effects; technology transfers; outsourcing; environmentally harmful activities; ecologically unsustainable; global network; FDI centrality; carbon dioxide emissions; GDP; Global South; Global North; energy inefficiency; production processes; fossil-fuel consumption; Environmental Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3861; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5119/viewcontent/Jorgenson_Clark_Kentor_Rieger_ERSS_2022__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study offers a new approach to the study of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the environment. We argue that both the accumulation of inward FDI and a nation's position in the global network of FDI could facilitate either environmentally beneficial spillover effects and technology transf...