The assumption of homogenous representative agents with perfect rationality is challenged by recent macroeconomic literature. In this paper, we consider an asymmetric information diffusion process from more-informed to less-informed agents in a standard cobweb-type expectation model. Our main...

This paper investigates business-cycle affects for a country's FDI outflows. OLS and panel regressions show that volatility in economic growth has a negative and significant impact on FDI outflows. Furthermore, we find different types of shocks have asymmetric impacts on FDI outflows. In other...