investment (FDI). But regional integration agreements (RIAs) as well as FDI are too diverse to allow for generalized verdicts … high expectations in several respects. First, country-specific factors were often more important as a stimulus to FDI than … regional integration per se. Second, member countries are unlikely to equally share RIA-induced FDI inflows, even though the …

direct investment (FDI) and recent empirical evidence on the relative importance of determinants of FDI in developing … dominant factors. Among non-traditional FDI determinants, only the availability of local skills has clearly gained importance …. As concerns the interface between trade policy and FDI, we find that the tariff jumping motive for FDI had lost much of …