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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

open access: possibleCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2014
AbstractEmpirical studies of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) activity show substantial differences in specifications with little agreement on the set of included covariates. We use Bayesian statistical techniques that allow one to select from a large set of candidates those variables most likely to be determinants of FDI activity.
Bruce A. Blonigen, Jeremy Piger
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Foreign direct investment [PDF]

open access: possible, 1997
This paper argues that the liberalisation of foregin direct investment (FDI) has made labour costs more important to domestic investment and long-run labour demand. It provides evidence from British and German data that is consistent with this view. First, high unit labour costs increase FDI outflows and lower FDI inflows.
Dale R. Weigel   +2 more
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Foreign direct investment

2018
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics are commonly treated as unproblematic measures of the ‘true’ levels of cross-border investment flows. Through a dissection of the manifold measurement problems underlying standard FDI statistics, this chapter offers a different perspective on these numbers.
Anca M. Voicu   +2 more
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Foreign Direct Investment in Ukraine

2023
The Ukrainian economy cannot ensure economic reconstruction after the war and needs new opportunities for its development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important instrument that can help. FDI provides capital relevant for increasing the profitability of economic sectors.
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Foreign direct investment in China

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 2006
China has emerged as the most dynamic FDI‐host country in the world, and the impact of FDI on the Chinese economy has burgeoned in ways that no one anticipated. This paper focuses on four issues: (a) the factors behind the FDI boom; (b) how China has succeeded in utilizing FDI so far; (c) China's FDI strategy; and (d) its future development.
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Foreign Direct Investment in Manufacturing

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model, based on profit-maximizing behavior, that can be used to derive estimable equations for U.S. foreign direct investment in manufacturing. Our estimation of foreign-investment equations requires estimates of production functions for U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries abroad.
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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Investment in Canada

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1977
F OREIGN private direct investment has a number of economic effects on the capitalreceiving country. Although these have usually been assumed to be beneficial, several recent papers suggest that the issue may be more complex.' While much of the attention to this subject has come from those concerned with developing countries, these issues have ...
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Strategic foreign direct investment

1997
This chapter examines foreign direct investment by multinational firms in the modern world economy, which is characterised by increasing integration across national markets. This process — often termed ‘globalisation’ — has radically altered firms’ approaches to direct foreign investment.
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Foreign Direct Investment

This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.
Francisca Da Gama, Bruce Cronin
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Foreign Direct Investment

2021
Abstract Consensus on the concept of foreign direct investment (FDI) has sparked an enormous body of research that confirms the importance of separating FDI and its politics from other forms of international economy activity. At the same time, international political economy research on FDI is in danger of becoming a victim of its own ...
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