specialized in the source country. Consequently, FDI investors would make investment, both larger, and of higher quality (namely … the domestic investment and output growth regressions relative to the portfolio equity flow and international loan … coefficients, reflect a more significant role for FDI in the domestic investment process than other types of capital inflows …

features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …

We survey several mechanisms that explain the composition of international capital flows: foreign direct investment …, foreign portfolio investment and debt flows (bank loans and bonds). We focus on information frictions such as adverse …

This paper examines the history of foreign investment in Latin America in the two centuries since independence …. Investment flows to the region were sometimes large and always volatile. Symptoms of overborrowing, sudden stops, debt, default …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio … stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by …