ARE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS EFFECTIVE ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN TURKEY? AN APPROACH WITH NON-LINEAR ARDL METHOD

There are discussions in the literature on whether there disadvantages terms of environmental quality and economic advantages provided by foreign direct investments developing countries. These discussions, which were studied within framework Pollution Haven Hypothesis, have been subject many empirical studies. This study aims to investigate relationship between carbon emissions, growth, amount energy use, investments, trade openness for Turkey Hypothesis test hypothesis mentioned above is valid Turkey. In study, validity was tested using NARDL method 1970 2018. The findings validate that long term. It also determined negative shocks growth use reduce while positive increase emissions not short term among other obtained from study. Also, it shock significant