We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries, 99 countries, 1991-2007, extending Rajan-Zingales (1998). We utilize external finance dependence measures in a series of cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing...

This paper constructs a two-stage sequential game model to investigate the spillover effect of inward FDI on improving the efficiency of domestic firms in host countries. Our model shows that, given the optimal joint-venture policy made by foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward...

At the backdrop of expanding economies and in the race of attracting higher investments and enhancing exports, it becomes important to analyze the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and growth in terms of output of the economy. A number of studies have been conducted for...