In our increasingly globalized economy, global competitiveness of countries and means to measure it gain increasing significance, for which one the biggest motivating forces is ability to improve chances for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), which in turn is a very substantial factor...

This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investments inflows in both global and regional panel analyses involving 156 countries through the period of 1995-2016. Unlike to prior literature, it includes often neglected nations such as Fragile and...

The objective of this chapter is to explore the proprietary and contractual techniques that serve to allocate control over resources in the context of neoliberal legality, using foreign investment relations as a case study. This chapter seeks to examine how the dominant legal techniques make...

This paper examines, applying quantile regression, the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic freedom on economic growth in BRICS economies. We find that GDP per capita income responds positively to FDI via economic freedom

This study investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. The research compares the capacity and appetite for business creation among high-income, low-income and emerging countries. The results...

This study examines the role economic freedom plays in attracting Indian outward foreign direct investment to various countries. Investments by Indian multinationals to various continents are studied along with aggregate investment outflows. Results show that Indian outward FDI do appear to...