The impact of foreign direct investment on CO2 emissions in Turkey: new evidence from cointegration and bootstrap causality analysis

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 790 - 804
• Main Authors: Koçak, Emrah, Şarkgüneşi, Aykut
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide emissions; Causality; Earth and Environmental Science; Economic development; Economic growth; Economic models; Economics; Ecotoxicology; energy; Energy consumption; Energy usage; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental Kuznets curve; Environmental science; foreign direct investment; Foreign investment; greenhouse gas emissions; Hypotheses; Investment; pollution; Pollution levels; Regression analysis; Research Article; Test procedures; Turkey (country); Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Turkey; Turkey (country); Turkey; Pollution haven hypothesis; Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis; Cointegration; CO; emissions; Bootstrap causality
• ISSN: 0944-1344; 1614-7499; 1614-7499
• DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-0468-2

Pollution haven hypothesis (PHH), which is defined as foreign direct investment inducing a raising impact on the pollution level in the hosting country, is lately a subject of discussion in the field of economics. This study, within the scope of related discussion, aims to look into the potential impact of foreign direct investments on CO 2 emission in Turkey in 1974–2013 period using environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model. For this purpose, Maki (Econ Model 29(5):2011–2015, 2012 ) structural break cointegration test, Stock and Watson (Econometrica 61:783–820, 1993 ) dynamic ordinary least square estimator (DOLS), and Hacker and Hatemi-J (J Econ Stud 39(2):144–160, 2012 ) bootstrap test for causality method are used. Research results indicate the existence of a long-term balance relationship between FDI, economic growth, energy usage, and CO 2 emission. As per this relationship, in Turkey, (1) the potential impact of FDI on CO 2 emission is positive. This result shows that PHH is valid in Turkey. (2) Moreover, this is not a one-way relationship; the changes in CO 2 emission also affect FDI entries. (3) The results also provide evidence for the existence of the EKC hypothesis in Turkey. Within the frame of related findings, the study concludes several polities and presents various suggestions.