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 …

on bilateral FDI stocks. We address potential reverse causality, inter alia by performing instrumental variable … and robust finding is that bilateral FDI increases with better developed financial markets in both the host and the source …

The research delves into the determinants of inward FDI to Colombia in the context of economic integration promoted by … the country more attractive to foreign direct investment (FDI), in a framework of fiscal discipline and a stable economic … environment for economic growth, albeit characterised by complex institutional conditions. Government reforms have revitalized FDI …

incentives in relation to FDI inflows. The impact of such institutional variables on FDI have been typically studied using large … overall protection to investors. The importance of institutional variables in influencing FDI into India tells us that overall …

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 …

In this paper, the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is analyzed. The literature is thus … results in an economy. For the empirical analysis, a dataset consisting of bilateral FDI data from the OECD and the control of …. Findings are ambiguous in that corruption is positively correlated with FDI inflows in the target country and negatively …

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … for imports, exports, in- and outward FDI stocks. We adopt both a Hausman-Taylor (1981) IV approach (3SLS-GMM) and rival … framework in explaining German trade and FDI activity. Looking carefully at cross-variable linkages we basically find …

Investment (FDI) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) not only across the destination but also across the origin … country dimension of FDI. Results show that: (i) spatial interrelationships across destination countries are present and are … consistent with the predominance of vertical-complex FDI in total FDI; (ii) spatial correlation across origin countries is given …

This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the … and the distribution of outward FDI stocks among these countries. The results reveal a complementarity between trade and …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5% for Poland and 30% for …

The paper develops a new stand-alone structural gravity model for explaining bilateral FDI patterns. We employ the … on bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI). We use the UNCTAD global database on bilateral FDI stocks and flows. To … a PTA increases bilateral FDI stocks by around 30%. Nevertheless, we also find that ‘deeper' or comprehensive PTAs (e …