advantage in the global markets, a trend similar to that of other major foreign direct investment (FDI) source countries … investment gaps. The COVID-19 pandemic could have a long-lasting impact on global value chains and FDI flows, which poses both … challenges and opportunities to LAC in attracting FDI, including from China, to support the region’s long-run economic …

Blonigen (1997) proposes a link between exchange rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) motivated to acquire … complementary assets (i.e., asset-seeking acquisition FDI). However, previous studies have only examined this hypothesis with … acquisition FDI data from a country source that are mostly U.S. inbound. In this paper I examine the hypothesis using the …

Macroeconomic determinants of FDI are seldom analyzed from the perspective of source countries, priority being given to … adverse impact on FDI flowing to developing economies that can offset the positive effect of domestic cycles. We also find … that the standard positive FDI-effect of structural reforms such as trade openness is reduced by higher output volatility …

Economic theory provides two main explanations why changes in exchange rates can affect foreign direct investment (FDI …). According to a first explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if there are information frictions on capital markets and … explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if output and factor markets are segmented, and if firm-specific assets are …

foreign direct investment choice, the export strategy can be rejected although it is dominating the FDI project and although … continuous variables on export and FDI patterns. …

This paper examines the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the real exchange rate for low … while the depreciation of the real exchange rate draws more FDI to Sub-Saharan African countries, the real exchange rate … volatility causes greater instability in FDI inflows to these countries. The results are robust across different measures and …

discuss current and future policy issues presented by Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the US, including national …

foreign direct investment choice, the export strategy can be rejected although it is dominating the FDI project and although … continuous variables on export and FDI patterns. - export ; FDI ; uncertainty ; real option approach …