). Barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Philippines are highly restrictive. The Foreign Investment Act (R.A. 7042 …

Appendix for the paper "Mandated Sharing and Telecom Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean" published in …

-specific investment policy reform on firm productivity. Hereby we exploit a protectionist foreign direct investment reform (the so …-called negative investment list) that designated certain sectors at the five-digit level to become closed or only conditionally open … regulation, we find robust evidence of declining foreign capital shares in sectors subject to restrictions on foreign direct …

In 2016, some 55 economies introduced at least 112 measures affecting foreign investment. Two thirds of these measures … sought to liberalize, promote and facilitate new investment (falling since 2016). Almost a third of these measures are new … factor for foreign investment. This study also shows the substitution between foreign and domestic investment in the presence …

players can result in diseconomies of scale and a less efficient use of resources. We also find evidence that investment …