The empirical literature on the institutions-FDI nexus has treated the influence of institutions individually despite … has a positive influence on FDI flows, while the quality of public administration has a surprisingly negative influence …

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern … vertical FDI. The market-seeking strategy appears to be more important than factor-proportion related motivations; however, the … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

investments. In addition, most recent studies have examined the effect of International Trade Agreements (TAs) on FDI flows as … domestic institutions, on FDI inflows. Statistical analyses for 122 developing countries from 1970 to 2005 support this … in sample. The results state that (1) More the FTA-CU concluded, larger the amount of FDI inflows are attracted into the …

The paper develops a stand-alone structural gravity model for explaining bilateral FDI patterns. We employ the model to … bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI). We use the UNCTAD global database on bilateral FDI stocks and flows. To control for … increases bilateral FDI stocks by around 30%. Nevertheless, we also find that ‘deeper' or comprehensive PTAs (e.g., including …

This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the … gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership … leads FDI into the host economy to be about 60% higher for investment from outside the EU, and around 50% higher for intra …

with only occasional relapses. Yet, FDI liberalisation remains an unfinished agenda in various parts of the world and … FDI positions and cross-border M&A activity to FDI restrictions as measured by the OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness … Index. Results suggest that reforms liberalising FDI restrictions by about 10% as measured by the Index could increase …