countries. Ireland, which began its rapid FDI-fuelled convergence on average EU living standards over our data period, emerges …

This paper aims at examining the role played by inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in affecting the exit … include the FDI variable, dividing it between types of foreign investor (industrial vs. financial) besides the usual analysis … with the division by country of origin. Secondly, we analyze whether FDI may have effects not only on the probability that …

-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity … model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable …-border imports based on previous FDI inflows. A detailed analysis by individual service sectors highlights business, communication …

industry-level predictions, working with a panel of U.S. data. Unlike the recent literature that works with FDI as a proxy for … exports the further away are host countries. Language and the presence of manufacturing FDI are also important. The impact of …

This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model … takeovers on employee-employer matched data of Hungary and find evidence consistent with learning, but not with FDI technology …

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 …