（時間已更改）華師經英seminar第41期
【題目】外商直接投資、技術溢出與企業污染排放
【主講人】吳明琴教授
【主持人】周勻月博士
【時間】6月30日（周四）下午1:00（時間由原定的14:00開始更改為13:00開始）
【地點】文二棟301會議室
【主講人簡介】吳明琴，新葡的京集團350vip8888經濟與管理學院教授。研究方向是發展經濟學、區域經濟學和環境經濟學。在《Journal of Development Economics》, 《Journal of Environmental Economics and Management》, 《Regional Science and Urban Economics》, 《經濟研究》、《經濟學（季刊）》、《世界經濟》等學術期刊發表論文多篇。
【摘要】This paper provides quasi-natural experiment evidence from China, using a plausibly exogeneous relaxation of FDI regulations upon China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in 2001. Based on a panel of domestic major polluting firms of 1998-2007, we compare firm emissions in FDI-encouraged industries with firm emissions in unchanged industries before and after the WTO accession, using a difference-in-differences (DID) estimation. We find that FDI deregulation increases domestic firms’ air pollution emissions. Tests on causal mechanisms show evidence for both agglomeration and competition effects; yet the competition effect dominates the agglomeration effect, resulting in an overall increase in firm emissions. Further, FDI deregulation significantly reduces domestic firm productivity and markup while it does not reduce firm air pollution removal amounts, suggesting that the competition effect mostly affects firm emissions through the production process rather than during the end-of-pipeline abatement stage. Finally, our main results do not change after we rule out potential reallocation and selection effects.