Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluating the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for he Chemical Industry Title Evaluating the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for he Chemical Industry: An Empirical Study Author Castelein, Tom (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor van Beers, Cees (graduation committee) Roosenboom-Kwee, Zenlin (mentor) Kroesen, Maarten (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2018-02-12 Abstract This research evaluates the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for the chemical sector across the globe. It does so by creating a regression model which incorporates five constructs (market potential, infrastructure, factor cost, governance factors and a measure of environmental stringency) to explain the variance of foreign direct investment (FDI) across countries specified for the chemical sector. The results are by no means unequivocally for or against a confirmation of the pollution haven hypothesis, but the evidence suggests a negative effect of the measure of environmental stringency when FDI is specified further to only the manufacture of chemical products and sampled by averaging as much annual FDI data as the dataset includes. Subject pollutionhavenhypothesis To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fa4d263f-4dab-466a-b231-102b8a2cf79c Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Tom Castelein Files PDF thesis.pdf 1.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fa4d263f-4dab-466a-b231-102b8a2cf79c/datastream/OBJ/view