Intellectual Property Rights, Environmental Regulations, and Foreign Direct Investment

Catherine Y. Co, John A. List and Larry D. Qui

Abstract

Sustainable development has been a popular buzzword among policymakers and economists for over a decade. Although a key tenet of maintaining a sustainable development path for many economies rests on attracting mobile capital, theoretical and empirical evidence into the institutional policies that attract factors remains largely unresolved. This paper takes a positive look at the determinants of attracting capital with particular attention paid to intellectual property rights and environmental regulations. (JEL F23, O34, Q28)

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