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Evidence for the Effect of Monitoring Costs on Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2019

A proposed reason for the significant inverse relationship between distance (both physical and cultural) and foreign direct investment is the increased costs for a parent firm to monitor an affiliate when there is greater distance between them. We provide the first direct test of this hypothesis...

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In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the question of the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment ever more important. Standard theory of the multinational corporation (MNC) assumes substitution, while...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471633

Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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Tariff-Jumping Antidumping Duties

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2000

Using a newly constructed database, this paper examines the tariff-jumping response of all firm and product combinations subject to U.S. AD investigations from 1980-1990. The results strongly support the hypothesis that tariff-jumping is only a realistic option for multinational firms from...

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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2011

Empirical studies of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) activity show substantial differences in specifications with little agreement on the set of covariates that are (or should be) included. We use Bayesian statistical techniques that allow one to select from a large set of candidates...

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Spacey Parents : Spatial Autoregressive Patterns in Inbound FDI

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2005

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...

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A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2005

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...

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FDI in Space : Spatial Autoregressive Relationships in Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004

consistent with export platform FDI in Europe …

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Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct 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...

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Tariff-jumping FDI and Domestic Firms' Profits

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2002

Studies of the welfare implications of trade policy often do not take account of the potential for tariff-jumping FDI to mitigate positive gains to domestic producers. We use event study methodology to examine the market effects for U.S. domestic firms that petitioned for antidumping (AD)...

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