Journal
ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 291-301Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.12.010
Keywords
Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Capital flows; Sectoral FDI
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- PSC-CUNY grant [66170-00 44]
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This study examines the link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and energy demand. FDI is a source of financing that allows businesses to grow. At the same time, FDI can be a source of innovation that promotes energy efficiency. Existing evidence on the impact of aggregate FDI inflows on energy consumption is scarce and inconclusive. In the current study, we disaggregate FDI inflows into mining, manufacturing, total services, and financial services components and examine the impact of these FDI flows on renewable - and non-renewable industrial energy - sources for 74 countries for the period 1985-2012. We employ a Blundell-Bond dynamic panel estimator to control for endogeneity and omitted variable biases in our panels. The results point broadly to an energy consumption-reducing effect with respect to non-renewable sources of energy and an energy consumption-augmenting effects with respect to renewable energy. We find that these effects vary in magnitude and significance by sectoral FDI. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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