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Liberalization and greenhouse gases emissions in the EU-10, Prof. Feride Gonel, Dr. Tolga Aksoy and Dr. Baris Vardar

Prof. Feride Gonel
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Turkey
Email: fgonel@superonline.com
Dr. Tolga Aksoy
Department of Economics
Bocconi University, Milan
Italy
Dr. Baris Nevzat Vardar
Universite Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
France

DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-08-2013-0027

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between liberalization and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). After their memberships, most of the CEECs have already committed to reducing their GHGs emissions. Although emissions have decreased on average, there is a substantial heterogeneity among the countries. Within the liberalization and integration efforts, increasingly huge amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) has flown to the region. Therefore, the question is whether or not this increase in foreign investment to CEECs is related to the polluting industries. The coincidence of increased FDI and GHGs emission has led us to study the relationship between them.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper exploited cross-sectional and time series variation of the data.
Findings: The paper found that the polluting FDI is positively associated with GHGs emissions in CEECs.
Originality/value: Few previous studies have taken into account FDI and environmental performance together, so the analysis represents a notable contribution to the pollution haven literature.
Keywords: Industry; Sustainable environment; CEECs; Liberalization; Foreign direct investment; Greenhouse gas emissions; Environment; EU.
Citation: Gonel, F., Aksoy, T. and Nevzat Vardar, B. (2013), "Liberalization and greenhouse gases emissions in the EU-10", World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-08-2013-0027

 

WJSTSD V10 N4 2013 Gonel et al.pdf
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