外商直接投资、环境管制与环境污染

本文就外商直接投资、环境管制和环境污染的关系建立联立方程模型,并运用中国1992-2006年的数据对其进行计量检验,结果表明:外商直接投资通过影响中国的经济规模、结构和技术进步从而对环境产生影响,外商直接投资存量的增加扩大了经济规模,使工业污染排放增加,同时其存量增加也优化了经济结构和提高了技术水平,进而又减少了工业污染排放,外商直接投资对中国环境的总效应是正面的,但影响程度较小。另外,宽松的环境管制是吸引外商直接投资进入的一个重要因素,已经显现出一定"污染避难所"效应,但中国并未成为"污染避难所"。

Foreign Direct Investment, Environmental Regulation and Environmental Pollution

This paper constructs a simultaneous model to assess the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the environment. The results show: in 1992-2006, FDI entry enlarged China’s industrial production scale, which increased pollution emission. At the same time, FDI entry also reduced pollution emission through optimizing economic structure and improving technology. As a result, the total effect of FDI on environment is small and positive. In addition, the weaker environmental regulation is one of the main factors attracting FDI, which indicates there is a pollution haven effect in China, but China wasn’t the"pollution haven".