Empirical studies of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) activity show substantial differences in specifications … that allow one to select from a large set of candidates those variables most likely to be determinants of FDI activity. The …

Increasing attention has been given to the impact of third countries on outbound FDI to a given host country. Here, we … consider potential third-country effects on inbound FDI. A simple model suggests two sources of such effects on a country …'s inbound FDI. First, it will tend to receive more FDI fromparent countries proximate to large third countries. Second, FDI from …

This paper surveys the recent burgeoning literature that empirically examines the foreign direct investment (FDI …) decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the resulting aggregate location of FDI across the world. The contribution of … the paper is to evaluate what we can say with relative confidence about FDI as a profession, given the evidence, and what …

Theoretical models of foreign direct investment (FDI) have only recently begun to model the role of third countries …, and the empirical FDI literature has almost exclusively examined bilateral FDI data without recognizing the potential … interdependence between FDI decisions to alternative host countries. This paper uses spatial econometric techniques to examine the …

investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of … empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between LDCs and DCs in their analysis. First, we find that the … underlying factors that determine the location of FDI activity across countries vary systematically across LDCs and DCs in a way …

Studies of the welfare implications of trade policy often do not take account of the potential for tariff-jumping FDI ….S. domestic firms that petitioned for antidumping (AD) relief, as well as the effect of announcements of FDI by their foreign …% abnormal gains to a petitioning firm when there is no tariff-jumping FDI, but no abnormal gains if there is tariff-jumping FDI …