The upsurge of Chinese and Indian outward foreign direct investment (FDI) raises an unanswered question about locational determinants of direct investment from the two countries. Using an unbalanced bilateral FDI database, we find that Chinese and Indian FDI are attracted to countries with large...

Using privately-owned-enterprises (POEs) data in China, we find that access to external finance is a statistically significant factor explaining their probability of undertaking foreign direct investment (FDI). The significance of external finance is magnified in industries featured by high...

Expropriation risk has a binding effect on foreign direct investment (FDI). However, state-owned multinational corporations (MNCs) may counter the monopoly power of the host state by leveraging the political influence of their home government. The magnitude of this counter force, we argue, may...

Scholars argue that multinational corporations tend to locate their investment in countries with lower labor standards, but empirical results are highly inconsistent. In this paper, we investigate the effect of differential labor standards on the location choice of outward greenfield foreign...