Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI … is of capital importance. We investigate the FDI-growth nexus in LA allowing for different source countries, regional … heterogeneity, interaction terms with FDI, and more than 20 growth determinants. We use Bayesian Model Averaging to address model …

This analysis focuses on studying whether four significant trends in Latin America may be important determinants of FDI … as significant incentives or deterrents to FDI in the Latin American region, this empirical analysis uses a baseline … model that includes a set of control variables identified in previous empirical analyses as important determinants of FDI in …

This paper seeks to examine the determinants of FDI into Latin America with an aim to make policy recommendations to … boost FDI into the region. Using data for 17 Latin American countries for the period from 1990 to 2013 and two-way fixed … FDI. The results suggest that infrastructural development, human capital and good governance play crucial roles in …

intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented … the enforcement of BITs in fostering intra-regional FDI. We observe heterogeneous impacts within the bloc: BITs exert a … positive but small effect, with an estimated increase in FDI stocks between 4-7.25%, for middle income countries such as …

. Inward FDI is considered as one of the important catalysts of economic development particularly for the resource and capital … poor countries. In this article we have examined the relationship between inward FDI and economic growth in case of one of … variables like inward FDI, per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, capital formation, and exports for the period …