plays a central role in determining the origin of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Spain. …

rates of FDI as well as domestic capital formation. This "investment hunger" can lead to unanticipated declines in the …, loosely based upon China. We calibrate a benchmark equilibrium, and carry out various counterfactual simulations to analyze …

The recent wave of foreign investment in China's banks and the prospects of further opening of the banking sector under … the WTO agreement suggest that foreign banks are likely to play an increasingly important role in China. This paper takes … investments in China's banks have been minority shareholdings with very limited management involvement. The paper concludes that …

investment (FDI) received by countries participating in the RTA. This hypothesis is tested on a sample of 71 developing countries … during the period 1980-99. Evidence is found that the RTA market size had a positive impact on the FDI received by member … labor force and/or a relatively more stable financial situation tended to attract a larger share of FDI at the expense of …

A widespread view holds that countries that finance themselves through foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio … a cross section of emerging markets and developing countries, we find that equity-like liabilities (FDI and, especially …

determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European … countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main finding is a strong empirical relationship from reforms to FDI, in particular, from …