Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI from the US. FDI is higher in countries that are close to the US … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too …

Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth. Countries try to attract mobile … capital in order to foster economic development, albeit FDI might increase regional inequality since the many different … regions of a country usually do not receive FDI in equal measure. A conflict emerges between efficiency and redistribution …

actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …

limited by the savings rate of workers close to subsistence. We argue that access to capital goods in the world market can be … technologies coexist (a dual economy in the sense of Lewis (1954)). We show that a decline in the world price of capital goods in …

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign …. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …