North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to … where Northern firms invest to take advantage of lower wages. Contrary to expectation, I find that lower FDI costs increase … unemployment both in the North and in the South. There are two effects of FDI on unemployment, a direct positive one which …

In a recent model Markusen and Venables (1999) describe the conditions under which foreign direct investments (FDI) can …

In a recent model Markusen and Venables (1999) describe the conditions under which foreign direct investments (FDI) can …

multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the … FDI depends on the country specific absorptive capacity. We first interact FDI individually with different growth … determinants and we find that the contribution of FDI to economic growth is positive and significant depending on the level of …

types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …

almost all Chinese financial flows as “FDI”. This would not be an issue if all Chinese financial flows, such as trade, aid …, exports credits, and FDI, were identical in terms of causes and results. However, what is often termed “FDI” in the extant … technical or general meanings of FDI, and, unfortunately, many of these Chinese financial flows do not qualify as such. This is …

foreign direct investment (FDI): the 'export platform FDI-led' growth model and the 'tax haven FDI-led' growth model. The … former is driven by the growth of the exports of foreign-owned firms and is associated with greenfield FDI inflows, whereas … taxation and is associated with intangible FDI inflows. The two models achieve demand, output, and income growth via …