The current state of terrorism has posed serious challenges to stability of macroeconomic environment causing the displacement of foreign direct investment (FDI). This study aims to find the impact of terrorism along with other important location variables such as market size, economic growth,...

The significance of a crucial WTO accession agreement component, that is, Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) agreement in increasing Sub-Saharan African developing country’s appeal for investors from abroad is assessed over here. Conventional FDI location determinants like macroeconomic...

In this study an attempt is made to gauge the importance of prudent macro-economic management in the location choice decision of foreign direct investors. Moreover, infrastructure availability, market size, trade liberalisation and economic development are also considered, for a set of forty...

This study investigates the impact of EU trade liberalisation on the export competitive ness of ECOWAS countries. Trade liberalisation is captured by import tariffs in the EU market whiles export competitiveness is captured by the export value of ECOWAS countries. The study uses the gravity...

This paper assesses the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Africa by accounting for the heterogeneity of African countries. In addition, the paper contributes to the literature of trade openness and economic growth nexus by applying the instrumental variable panel smooth...

There are several variables/factors which play an important role in influencing investors’ location choice. In this paper, we gauge the impact of financial development (FD) along with other variables i.e. market size, development level, openness and human capital on Foreign Direct Investment...

The study examines the effect of autocracy and democracy on FDI inflows in Asian developing countries from 1990-2010. Using multiple regression analysis the study found the positive and significant effect of autocracy on FDI inflows in the selected range of countries while democracy...

The current research work considers the effect of prudent macroeconomic management of the host economy on inward foreign direct investment in Association of South East Asian Nations member states. This research use annual data of nine ASEAN countries namely: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,...

This paper investigates the effect of trade agreements on the transnational corporation presence in the developing Asia. This hypothesis is tested on the sample of 9 Asian developing countries for twenty one years’ time period. Evidence is found that the Trade agreements had a significant...

This study explores the factors that drive foreign direct investment (FDI) to Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa that are collectively known as “BRICS”. By employing random effect panel estimation technique on the panel data for the years 1990-2011, the study found that market...