This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information …, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical … country and the subsidiary in the target country. The question arises as to how reliable this measure is for identifying FDI …

distance between the home country and host countries that can affect the FDI location decision. The results of the Robust … Weighted Least Squares (RWLS) estimation method using panel data of outward FDI flows from Morocco to 54 host countries from …The present paper investigates the effect of religious distance on the choice of location of Moroccan Multinational …

bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a “gravity” model and the Heckman (1979) two-stage framework on a data set of … 45 countries from 1997 to 2007, we find that corruption distance adversely affects the volume of FDI to be invested in a … host country. However, we do not find statistical evidence that corruption distance influences FDI's decision on whether to …

consists of real FDI stocks for 476 country pairs for the years 1994-2004 and a distance weighted spatial matrix, we find … horizontally motivated FDI while the spatial third country effects seem to comply with the notion of vertical FDI and production … fragmentation. While bilateral variables seem to dominate location decisions the results confirm the existence and importance of …

This paper analyzes the effects of distance as a common determinant of exports and FDI in a three factors New Trade … Theory model assuming that distance affects both pure trade costs and plant set-up costs. Exports and FDI are not necessarily … most appropriately analyzed in a Hausman-Taylor SUR model. In our application, outward FDI is negatively affected by …