This paper discusses the trends in India's outward FDI over the last decade and then attempts to identify the driving factors for the same. The aim is to provide policy makers with insights regarding levers which would help in encouraging FDI outflows and to stimulate further research in foreign...

The study analyzes the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) stocks pertaining to 34 OECD source and 160 destination countries. The principal findings are: (i) The gravity model variables explain nearly 50 per cent of the variation in the OFDI stock. (ii) Common language...

Inward FDI flows over 2000-01 from many source countries into India, one of the fastest growing large developing economies in the period, have been explained by an extended gravity model and the an extended allometric models by incorporating other variables such as common language, tax status,...

Foreign direct investments from India, although not exactly a recent phenomenon, has attracted the attention of scholars only in the recent past. Nevertheless a fairly substantial literature has emerged on the phenomenon of foreign direct investments (FDI) from the LDCs. The published literature...

We discuss the determinants of FDI over the regions of a large economy like India, and develop a framework drawn from the advantage concept of Kindleberger and from location theories rooted in regional science. We specifically use Stephen Hymer's understanding of the parallels and relationship...

This paper is based on the EXIM Bank International Trade Research Annual Award 1990 doctoral thesis "Foreign Direct Investments From India: 1963-83". It brings out the trends in direct foreign investments over the period, the patterns of ownership and control, the sources of technology of the...