capacity, the increased strategic importance of natural resources and the increased interregional trade flow. I also …

essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis is that foreign-educated leaders attract more FDI to their country …. Our rationale is that education obtained abroad encompasses a whole slew of factors that can make a difference in FDI … significant determinant of FDI inflows, beyond other standard characteristics. While intuitive, this result does not necessarily …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … – where the firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi while the least productive firms serve the home market only and … theoretical model and the empirical results for software firms from India provided by Bhattacharya, Patnaik and Shah (2010) there …

outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater … refugees fostered FDI to their home region, while national domestic reforms in Vietnam amplified the positive FDI …

This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the … gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership … leads FDI into the host economy to be about 60% higher for investment from outside the EU, and around 50% higher for intra …

We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

information endowment hypothesis of van Nieuwerburgh and Veldkamp (2009). Specifically, past capital and trade flows from a …

paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … direction of FDI inflows. By performing panel models with spatial effects for both Chinese provinces and developing ASEAN … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …

determinants of Chinese firm outward FDI (OFDI). In our analysis, the primary independent variables include high-tech intensity …, language and business culture, and trade laws in both China and the West. Their unique skill sets and knowledge appear to serve …

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … has on this. We illustrate the important differences that horizontal and vertical FDI have on both wages and wage …