Evidence on productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms is ambiguous. Incorrect estimation procedures may be one … econometric methodology, inconsistency due to simultaneity of FDI and other explanatory variables and endogeneity related to firm …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into developing countries have been increasing dramatically over the past decade … helps explain FDI in Mexico. By focusing on pollution intensities, which are directly related to emission regulations, we … several different pollutants, we find a positive correlation between FDI and pollution that is both statistically and …

What macroeconomic and financial variables play key roles in the foreign direct investment decision (FDI) of firms …

for a horizontal rather than a vertical model of foreign direct investment (FDI). They all use U.S. or other developed … country data. This paper, in contrast, uses a previously unexploited industry-level data set on FDI in a relatively skilled …-labor and capital scarce country, Mexico, to shed light on the determinants of FDI between largely dissimilar countries. The …

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI … find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to China, when other relevant factors are taken into account. However …, concentrating on the last few years (from 1995 to 2001), when FDI boomed worldwide and negotiations for China’s WTO membership …

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI … find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to China, when other relevant factors are taken into account. However …, concentrating on the last few years (from 1995 to 2001), when FDI boomed worldwide and negotiations for China’s WTO membership …

. Product-market regulation and FDI restrictions have been lowered. The process of deregulation proceeds with different speed …

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations … in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more … synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we also find a positive association between FDI linkages and output …