inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … commodity terms of trade. Average level of FDI inflows is associated with a 23 percent higher takeoff probability relative to a … zero FDI inflow benchmark, and this effect is highest for the Latin America subsample, with a 65 rise in takeoff …

inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … commodity terms of trade. Average level of FDI inflows is associated with a 23 percent higher takeoff probability relative to a … zero FDI inflow benchmark, and this effect is highest for the Latin America subsample, with a 65 rise in takeoff …

In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use … quot;qualityquot; to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because … differentiate quality FDI in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector …

in the form of more transparent institutions and deeper reforms lead to more foreign direct investment (FDI). We use data … of FDI from the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea to various regions of China from 1990 to 2002. We … control for the standard determinants of FDI - regional market sizes, wage rates, human capital and tax policies. Then we add …

FDI) and economic growth. In the existing literature, the FDI effects on growth are not easy to understand. Mixed findings … study is an analysis of how institutions quality affects FDI-growth nexus. The second contribution is the use of the Panel … Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) modeling because the nexus between FDI and economic growth is nonlinear and depends on …

less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities …