An "option-pricing" model is employed to analyse when a firm should expand its production capabilities abroad. In a framework where the firm's profits are determined by some average of the attractiveness of the home and foreign countries, and attractiveness in each country follows differentiated...

This paper examines empirically a range of theoretical hypotheses about the determinants of FDI location in a panel data regression framework. The results of the estimation of a gravity model lend support to the proximity-concentration and internalisation hypotheses. Also, the fact that FDI has...

This paper applies likelihood-based panel cointegration techniques to examine the existence of a long run relationship between GDP, tourism earnings per tourist and total trade volume for a panel of European countries over the period 1988{2010. Removing the cross dependency, our panel...

As apresentações habituais do modelo Hecksher-Ohlin (HO) nos livros de texto têm quatro problemas: análise por vezes superficial dos mecanismos económicos relevantes; escassa ilustração através de exemplos económicos concretos da capacidade explicativa do modelo; utilização de...