This paper examines the importance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a panel data set for 27 … empirical findings show that FDI does exhibit a significant relationship with economic growth, at least, for those transition …

This article reviews the impact of intellectual property (IP) protection on foreign direct investment (FDI) by … FDI/IP dataset of 31 Swiss MNEs investing into 53 developing WTO Members over a period of 21 years (1990-2010), this study … significant positive effect on FDI volumes. A differentiated analysis of specific sectors, however, does identify a significant …

The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense … approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a growing debate in relation to its econometric specification, so that … outward FDI in Latin America and Asia for the period 1996-2012 by evaluating the performance of alternative Generalized Linear …

to FDI. In contrast, the available theory on FDI does not yet provide empirically testable propositions on the effects of … principal features of FDI. This paper uses a "gravity model" approach to assess the impact of the deepening integration between … the EU and the CEECs on FDI flows in terms of three key issues. First, we provide systematic estimates of the expected …

empirical foreign direct investment (FDI) literature to test such spatial linkages. This paper aims to provide further insights … into long-run determinants of Spanish FDI by considering not only bilateral but also spatially weighted third …-country determinants. The few studies carried out so far have focused on FDI flows in a limited number of countries. However, Spanish FDI …

bilateral OECD outbound stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) from 1991 to 2002. For this, we compile annual information on … bilateral tax treaties. Our findings indicate that the parent country's statutory corporate tax rate tends to foster outward FDI …, whereas the host country's statutory corporate and withholding tax rates are negatively associated with outward FDI …

This paper investigates the impact of price and real exchange rate volatility on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI … statistically significant negative effect of exchange rate volatility on FDI is found. Price volatility, instead, turns out to be …

developing countries and consider foreign direct investment (FDI) as a tool of exploitation. This paper tries to examine … empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …, thereby refuting the hypothesis that political repression fosters FDI. Yet this positive link does not hold for the 1970s …