inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …

model of multinational firms facing real and financial barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI), and we analyze their … impact on the FDI decision (the extensive margin) and foreign affiliate sales (the intensive margin). We provide empirical …

sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack … access to external finance on firms’ choices to export or to engage in FDI. We simultaneously model a firm’s decision to … engage in FDI and in exports, and we assess the importance of financial factors for this choice (the extensive margin) as …

analysis with aggregated data indicates that in the eight central and east European EU member states FDI and trade are …’s micro database direct investment (MIDI). The net effect of FDI on the trade balance is ambiguous, but FDI in high …Given the large trade and current account deficits in some of the new EU member states the development of their …

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the …