This paper argues that Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China plays a critical role in home and host country’s bilateral trade imbalances with the U.S. Using six cross-sectional panel data from 1981 to 2007, we find strong evidence in support of the role of Japanese FDI in mounting...

This paper investigates outsourcing and foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions based on factor price differentials in North-South trade when the production is fragmented into two independent processes. It is shown that (a) when the Southern firm does not have the Northern firm-specific...

Outward direct investment (ODI) from the People's Republic of China (PRC) is surging. A common perception is that it was driven by the country's resourceseeking and technology-seeking motives. Using a new, unique, and comprehensive dataset that covers close to 10,000 Chinese ODI deals from 1998...

FDI in the Cuban tourism industry has grown rapidly under the leadership of Cuban President Raul Castro. However, because of the US embargo, the Helms Burton (1966) Act, and competitive business strategies, little scholarly information exists on company experiences in Cuba market entry. This...

Using a centre-two periphery new economic geography model we study the location and real wage effects of the EU's Eastern enlargement on current and future EU member countries under pure trade integration and with migration of skilled labour. The quality of final and intermediate products...

This paper attempts to investigate the effect of FDI inflow and FDI outflow on the GDP of Bangladesh and India. For this purpose, we used panel data over the period of 2000-2019. First of all, we built our regression model from the basic regression model. The variables included in this model...

This paper explores whether factors that affect Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries affect countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) differently. The results indicate that: (i) A higher return on investment and better infrastructure have a positive impact on FDI to non-SSA...

This paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing industries. In contrast with most previous studies, this paper focuses on the spillover effects of FDI taking place through inter-industry linkages and studies the...

New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other...

This paper studies foreign direct investment spillovers on the gender-related labour market practice of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm data set of Bangladesh’s textiles and garment sectors. The paper looks at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and...