inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …

employs a system of equationsto investigate the nexus between FDI, portfolio and domestic investment in Pakistan. The main … domestic, especially on private investment, in Pakistan. The resultsshow that FDI inflows promoted domestic investment in … Pakistan, where FDI and domestic investment reported a one-to-one relationship. The findings of the study also confirm that …

investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have largely been ignored. We endogenize FDI inflows in …

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated … 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 …

order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …

cooperation, and thus that empirical evidence is not in accordance with the tested models. Further, it seems that by means of FDI …

proximity of the Russian market are not important motives for FDI, contrary to the Finnish, more manufacturing and retail trade … have investigated the factors af-fecting FDI in the Baltic Sea Region in three ways. First, we have studied the factors … affecting FDI on the basis of the existing theoretical and empirical literature. Secondly, we have studied the characteristics …

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated … 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 …

This paper analyzes policies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) based on a sample comprising the US plus six EU … 1995-2003. A Dynamic Panel Data approach is used to isolate important country- and industry-level determinants of FDI … inward stock. The estimated baseline model derived is used to assess the scope for FDI attraction policies. The scope for FDI …