direct investment; and inbound FDI growth surpassed that of the developing world during the decade 2001 - 2010. Yet foreign … (BTA), and regionally under the regional trade agreement (RTA). Under such scenarios, this study empirically assesses FDI … determinants with a specific focus on the FDI effects of BIT, BTA, and RTA as well as of factors pertaining to institutional …

differences between Korea and its FTA partners, we hypothesize that FTAs have a positive effect on outward FDI to developing … countries and inward FDI from developed countries. An underlying source of the hypothesis is the Knowledge-Capital model …, addressing the positive (negative) relationship between trade costs and horizontal (vertical) FDI. We test for the hypothesis …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Mexico has increased dramatically since the inception of the North American Free … Trade Agreement (NAFTA), raising questions about its effect on the Mexican economy. This paper studies the impact of FDI on … destination industry of investments. It also offers a detailed description of the evolution of FDI, its components, sectoral …

EU-Korea FTA positively impacts the expected amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) by Japanese firms within the EU … firms compete intensively. The study reveals that Japan’s trade and FDI into the EU complement each other …

investments. In addition, most recent studies have examined the effect of International Trade Agreements (TAs) on FDI flows as … domestic institutions, on FDI inflows. Statistical analyses for 122 developing countries from 1970 to 2005 support this … in sample. The results state that (1) More the FTA-CU concluded, larger the amount of FDI inflows are attracted into the …