时间：2024年12月26日10:00—12:00

地点：科研楼1115室

主讲人：张艳，中央财经大学

题目：Cooperate for Green? Quantifying the Environmental Effects of Foreign Joint Ventures in China

主讲人简介：张艳，经济学博士，中央财经大学教授，博士生导师。美国休斯敦大学访问学者、澳大利亚阿德莱德大学联合培养博士。主要研究领域为：国际贸易理论和政策、国际服务贸易、外资理论和政策、贸易与环境、贸易与劳动等。担任国家服务贸易统计专家组成员、全国高校国际贸易学科组服务经济与贸易论坛副秘书长、中国对外贸易统计学会理事、敦煌国际仲裁院第一届仲裁委员会委员、中国国际服务贸易协会专家委员会专家、新型经济体论坛第二届智库专家。主持国家社科基金项目两项。在《世界经济》《国际贸易问题》《经济科学》《国际贸易》、China Economic Review、Review of International Economics、The World Economy等国内外知名期刊发表学术论文40余篇。曾获得安子介国际贸易研究论文奖、著作奖，国际服务贸易与投资协会（TIISA）2020年青年学者论文一等奖、中国国贸学会论文二等奖等学术奖项。

Abstract: This paper aims to quantity the environmental effects of foreign Joint ventures in China. Based on a unique database of FDI in China, we first examine the environmental characteristics of the domestic Chinese firms selected as partners in the formation of joint ventures (JVs) and find domestic firms with higher pollution intensity enjoy higher probability to be selected by MNEs. Then, to address this negative selection issue, our paper identifies the environmental effects of foreign investment by applying a difference-in-differences approach combined with propensity score matching. We find that JVs will significantly decrease the COD emission intensity of the dirtier target firms. The environmental effects are stronger for JVs in dirtier industry, from developed source countries and in host regions with stringent environmental regulation. The ownership structure and the industry switch also matter, and foreign investment will improve the environment for China major structure, and the JVs remaining the same or switch towards downstream industry. Further, we find that the environmental efficiency of JVs could be raised through the channel of importing more environmental-efficient equipment and cleaner materials.