POLLUTION HALO EFFECT IN NIGERIA: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENERGY DEPENDENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE
This study examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and environmental quality in Nigeria from 1980 to 2023, with particular attention to the moderating roles of institutional quality and nonrenewable energy consumption. Employing a novel Dynamic Autoregressive Distributed Lag (D-ARDL) s...