positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to … explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance with the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). For FDI, we … determinants of portfolio and FDI flows and use a non-parametric test for spatial correlation in the residual of capital flows …

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies … over the period 1990–2010, the results suggest that FDI outflows negatively impact the rate of domestic investment …

Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward … investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while … percent of global FDI. Ignoringphantom investment and allocating real investment to ultimate investors increases …

FDI has played a strong role in the export-led growth of eastern European countries that are now members of the … European Union (EU). Largely sourced from advanced Europe, FDI inflows were motivated by the intention to pursue new markets … needed for FDI to continue playing a strong role? Can the Western Balkan countries, who are not yet EU members and have in …

infrastructure, human capital, and insitutions, are. By analyzing disaggregate FDI data, the paper establishes that, while there is … considerable contrast in behavior between vertical FDI (foreign firms producing for export) and horizontal FDI (foreign firms … producing for local markets), taxation is not a key determinant for either type of FDI. Horizontal FDI is attracted to areas …

facilitate FDI inflows. The main objective of this paper is to empirically examine this hypothesis. Using an unbalanced panel … significant increase in FDI inflows …

This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), i.e., challenges when … using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries … between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special purpose entities (SPEs), and (iii) the effect of moving from …