The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense … approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a growing debate in relation to its econometric specification, so that … outward FDI in Latin America and Asia for the period 1996-2012 by evaluating the performance of alternative Generalized Linear …

This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus … policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together from scattered sources suggests that horizontal (market seeking) FDI … has continued to dominate South Asian intra-regional FDI, with a significant shift in recent years in favour of services …

In this paper, the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is analyzed. The literature is thus … results in an economy. For the empirical analysis, a dataset consisting of bilateral FDI data from the OECD and the control of …. Findings are ambiguous in that corruption is positively correlated with FDI inflows in the target country and negatively …

This paper examines the major determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 26 European Union (EU …: Western (EU-15) countries and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The results from the panel data analysis of FDI … openness, unemployment, infrastructure, tax rate and unit labour costs are able, to a large extent, to explain FDI flows to …

To enhance the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and ultimately to increase the economic growth, the countries …, on the inflow of FDI using the time series data of 1971 - 2009. The DF-GLS test is used to determine the level of … the inflow of FDI in Pakistan. Tax revenue of product also negatively affects the FDI. On the other hand, the gross fixed …

. We find a generally positive but weak effect of FDI on productivity growth. Meanwhile, the results do not support the …

The amount of FDI inflows and the foreign investors' perception of the business environment in Romania underwent a … country of origin of FDI in Romania, reinvested and repatriated profits, the impact on trade balance, as well as the FDI … contribution index and inward FDI attraction index. Starting from a brief overview of FDI inflows in Romania, the paper highlights …

direct investment; and inbound FDI growth surpassed that of the developing world during the decade 2001 - 2010. Yet foreign … (BTA), and regionally under the regional trade agreement (RTA). Under such scenarios, this study empirically assesses FDI … determinants with a specific focus on the FDI effects of BIT, BTA, and RTA as well as of factors pertaining to institutional …

This paper investigates the impact of price and real exchange rate volatility on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI … statistically significant negative effect of exchange rate volatility on FDI is found. Price volatility, instead, turns out to be …