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Foreign direct investments in real estate sector and CO2 emission : Evidence from emerging economies

Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni (School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia)

Management of Environmental Quality

ISSN: 1477-7835

Article publication date: 7 June 2013

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Abstract

Purpose

In recent years, most emerging economies have experienced large foreign direct investment inflows to the real estate sector (FDIRE) and increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the effect of FDIRE on CO2 emissions in a set of emerging economies.

Design/methodology/approach

Applying fixed‐effect and generalized method of moments (GMM) techniques, this paper uses related observations from 31 emerging economies between 2000 and 2008 to analyze the impacts of FDIRE on CO2 emissions.

Findings

The empirical results show that FDIRE does not contribute to CO2 emissions. It is also found that energy consumption, urbanization and economic development are important determinants of CO2 emissions in emerging economies.

Originality/value

While there has been a series of papers that investigated the relationship between aggregate FDI and CO2 emissions, very few empirical studies have examined the relation between sectoral FDI and CO2 emissions across a large number of emerging economies.

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Citation

Gholipour Fereidouni, H. (2013), "Foreign direct investments in real estate sector and CO2 emission : Evidence from emerging economies", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 463-476. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-04-2012-0032

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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