This paper summarizes recent arguments/findings on two aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI): its correlation with … economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while … the second deals with the determinants of FDI. The paper finds that while substantial support exists for positive …

countries in Africa have achieved in attracting a substantial volume of FDI. Strong leadership, which has helped promote …

endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a unique panel data set for 25 transition economies …

This paper examines the role financial markets play in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and … markets allow agents to take advantage of knowledge spillovers from FDI, magnifying the output effects of FDI. Empirically, we … show that well-developed financial markets allow significant gains from FDI, while FDI alone plays an ambiguous role in …

Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity … countries, focusing in particular on FDI and equity stocks. …

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. …

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 anduse a non-parametric test for spatial correlation in the residual of capital flows. …

This paper analyzes the link between FDI, corporate taxation, and corporate tax revenues. We find strong evidence that … FDI in (out) flows are affected by tax regimes in the host (home) countries and FDI flows in turn affect the corporate tax … base. Simulations of European Union (EU) harmonization (isolating the revenue effect of FDI on the tax base from direct …