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 …

country and industry levels and generally concentrate on overall FDI flows without distinguishing among different modes of FDI …. Empirical studies focusing on aggregated inward and outward FDI flows, especially at the country level, implicitly assume that … the same factors motivate all modes of FDI. To the extent that this is not the case, many empirical studies of overall FDI …

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 …