This paper examines how environmental regulation affects the FDI strategies of parent firms in developing countries (the South) and developed countries (the North) when there are differences in the emission abatement technology between these countries. More lenient environmental regulations of...

Exploiting a large panel with an exhaustive coverage of cross-border acquisitions across more than 30 countries over more than a decade, this paper provides a comprehensive view of the eect of taxation on the desire of multinational enterprises to invest abroad. By considering the dierences...