Relación entre economía y medio ambiente: Un análisis de la relación de las emisiones de CO2 y la inversión extranjera directa (IED)

Abstract

Abstract: The objective of the work is to check whether or notthe countries analyzed are considered pollution havens. For this, the data of CO2 Emissions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) were used as main variables and as control variables the Consumption of Energy from Fossil Fuels and the Consumption of Electric Energy were used, all these data were obtained from World Bank, in the period 1982-2014. A panel model was used in which 20 countries are involved, the first model consists of 10 countries which have high and upper middle incomes and the second model has10 countries as well, but these have lower and lower middle incomes. The results obtained graphically are not solid enough to establish whether or not the countries are paradises of pollution, in the same way, the results obtained empirically are not robust to declare if the countries studied meet the conditions to be a paradise of the contamination, these results are theoretically supported by various studies.