Foreign direct investment has been of great importance in economic growth and global economic integration over the last decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large variations over time and between countries in the...

This paper investigates the relationship between education and the location of multinational affiliates. It finds that U.S. multinationals seek production locations with high levels of education rather than with uneducated labor. Furthermore, the education effect can be separated from the...

Indian FDI has been rapidly growing into developed region. As a result, developed region emerged as the largest host to Indian investment during 2000-07. An increasing number of firms from a wide range of economic activities are now undertaking FDI projects into developed countries. Considering...

Multinational companies (MNCs) are influenced by their home country institutions. But how does the interaction between home country and host region institutions affect human development in countries with significant regional disparities? To address this question, we collected a unique dataset of...

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

We use the rise of emerging-market multinationals as a vehicle to explore how a firm’s country of origin influences its internationalization. We argue that the home-country’s institutional and economic underdevelopment can influence the internationalization of firms in two ways. First,...

Fearing opportunistic takeovers during the economic upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, India put forth FDI restrictions resulting in the suspension of automatic route FDI from its border-sharing neighbours. Applying difference-in-difference methodology to bilateral greenfield project...

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

This paper attempts to measure the size of South–South foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing East Asia and the trends in it, the characteristics of the investing countries, and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects...