Building on the empirical evidence resulting from a newly developed database of foreign direct investment (FDI … level, a consistent modelling of FDI flows needs to take into account not only the determinants traditionally considered by … environment in which the FDI is undertaken. The inclusion of these variables, affecting the risk and the uncertainty of the FDI …

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This … countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimations to assess the determinants of bilateral FDI flows …. We find that economic geography variables are more relevant for FDI from nontraditional sources. The risk aversion of non …

1995 to 2010 with the framework of the gravity model. The result indicates a positive effect of a currency union on FDI … inflow to ECOWAS, which shows that the presence of a currency union is likely to increase FDI by 46%. The control variables …; political constraint, current account and trade openness is significant in explaining FDI inflow to ECOWAS. The implications of …

We empirically assess the determinants of India’s FDI outflows across a large sample of host countries in the 1996 … include: India’s outward FDI is hardly affected by motives to access raw materials or superior technologies. Market … countries attracts more FDI. Finally, it seems that Indian direct investors are relatively resilient to weak institutions and …

This paper studies the effect of the euro introduction on international FDI flows. Using country-pair data on 35 OECD … the euro on capital reallocation. In general, the euro exhibits no significant impact on FDI. However, the effect becomes … significant on the subset of EU countries, increasing FDI flows by 14.3 to 42.5 percent. Furthermore, we find that the EU …

gravity model on a sample of OECD countries confirm the hypothesis that currency unions have a positive impact on FDI …

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This … raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source … countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimations drawing on UNCTAD's database on bilateral FDI …

FDI between two countries increases with source GDP instability and with host GDP stability. We also find that although … this reactivity is not conditioned by trade and investment agreements, it must be qualified with respect to the type of FDI … differential, the incidence of vertical FDI thus tends to be higher when uncertainty is high than when uncertainty is low …