-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper … endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general equilibrium framework to contribute towards filling this gap. Our economy …. The analysis finds that, contrary to widely-shared perceptions, the short-run effects of FDI-friendly policies on the …

We assess drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle … established. First, for both contemporary and non-contemporary specifications, while determinants for gross FDI are significant …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as …

The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for … Net FDI. Secondly, the significance of the governance dynamics in increasing order of magnitude are general governance …

Previously reported effects of institutional quality and political risks on foreign direct investment (FDI) are mixed … cent increase in FDI, which is substantially larger than the effects of any other dimensions of institutional quality … simultaneously controlled for in our empirical models of FDI inflows. This evidence is consistent with the predictions of a standard …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI …-level panel data from ten Latin American (developing) countries in order to estimate the spillover effects from FDI on firms … a tendency that the presence of FDI in a sector (region) has a negative (positive) impact. …

role of government corruption in foreign direct investment (FDI) when contracts are not fully transparent and investors … face the threat of expropriation. Using a novel dataset on worldwide expropriations of FDI over the 1990-2014 period, we … country's government is perceived to be highly corrupt, but not otherwise. We then develop a theory of dynamic FDI contracts …

-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows. We find a strong and significant effect from fixed rates on bilateral FDI flows in … exchange rates on FDI. We provide several possible explanations for this difference. -- Foreign Direct Investment …