Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Panizza, Ugo; Stein, Ernesto H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affect FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U. S. , Europe and Japan), we find FDI flows to be countercyclical with respect to both output and interest rate...