This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model … takeovers on employee-employer matched data of Hungary and find evidence consistent with learning, but not with FDI technology …

developing countries and consider foreign direct investment (FDI) as a tool of exploitation. This paper tries to examine … empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …, thereby refuting the hypothesis that political repression fosters FDI. Yet this positive link does not hold for the 1970s …

the period 1989-2002. We find that German outward FDI increases in response to positive cyclical developments abroad and …