many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …

-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows. We find a strong and significant effect from fixed rates on bilateral FDI flows in … exchange rates on FDI. We provide several possible explanations for this difference. -- Foreign Direct Investment …

-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows. We find a strong and significant effect from fixed rates on bilateral FDI flows in … exchange rates on FDI. We provide several possible explanations for this difference. -- Foreign Direct Investment …

We examine and compare the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on total factor … productivity (TFP) in developed and developing host countries of FDI. Using panel data for up to 123 countries over the period from … 2003 to 2011, we find that greenfield FDI has no statistically significant effect on TFP while M&As have a positive effect …

many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …

This paper investigates the role of economic structures as determinants of FDI inflows. We expand on the existing … literature by focusing on advanced economies, using a newly available measure of FDI which cleans the data from statistical … structures to FDI inflows. These results are robust to various economic specifications and are confirmed when restricting our …

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …

We analyze the interlinkages between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) between … of FDI. Second, we show that foreign and the home stock market returns explain the variation of the growth rate of the … other words, FDI transactions measured by fitted growth rates of the stock of FDI help explaining current growth rates of …