The study is conducted to analyse the impact of foreign direct investments on domestic investment in Cote d'Ivoire. To this end, annual time series data for the period of 1975-2018 is used. The model is based on the theoretical model of Agosin and Mayer (2001).The study employs the differenced...

We examine the determinants of foreign real estate investment relative to the domestic case using the portfolios of a large sample of publicly traded real estate investment companies; where foreign investment is defined as the property owner headquarters being located in a different country than...

This paper examines the impacts of outward FDI on the home country's growth rate via the employment channel. In the overlapping generations framework, this paper shows that the impacts of FDI on the home country's growth are different in the short run and in the long run. Moreover, the relative...

The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches in the development economics and economic policy literature and empirically examines its relevance to the MENA region in the context of FDI flows. Using panel data for the period 1985-2008 and adopting an error components...

The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches to property rights protection and empirically examines it in the context of FDI flows to the MENA region. Using panel data on 11 MENA countries for the period 1991-2007 and adopting FGLS methodology, the paper finds a...

Literature notes many factors as affecting capital flows, but the effects of these flows over the recipient economies and the overall effect over growth are highly debatable. This study claims that although capital flows may be required for the increase in output, other forces are causing this...

International capital flows are strongly influenced by country-specific patterns that can be best understood in historical and comparative perspective. A long-term empirical analysis of French and German investment in Spain reveals that the core capabilities of foreign firms and their relations...

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization - as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

This paper investigates the importance of factor endowment vis-à-vis institutions in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors during the 1990s. Using dynamic panel estimation on data for transition economies, we find that low labour costs, bureaucratic efficiency ("institutions"),...

Financial responsibility of the EU resulting from investor-state arbitration is a politically sensitive topic that is currently shaping the emerging European international investment policy. What degree of protection can be granted to foreign investors in negotiations of future EU investment...