(henceforth, FDI) and local financial market development across 62 countries from 1996 to 2007. In this paper we explore whether …

The process of liberalization of international trade and of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has constituted a broadly … accepted trend during the last few decades and FDI inflows have expanded constantly since the end of the 1980's. However, signs … of a certain crisis of the positive and one-way attitude towards international trade and FDI exist nowadays. The increase …

(henceforth, FDI) and local financial market development across 62 countries from 1996 to 2007. In this paper we explore whether …

of economic growth and development in the case of the BRICS countries. The Russian Federation, Brazil and South Africa …, inflation represents a “common vulnerability†of the BRICS. In this situation, the selection of the most viable instrument of … giving up exports and FDI as engines of economic growth, the administrative bodies at macro and microeconomic levels …

We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels … through which major emerging economies (BRICs, i.e., Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China) could catch up with advanced … depends on the BRICs’ local capacity to absorb superior technologies and on domestic investment. …

This paper studies the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and financial market development … (FMD) using panel data from emerging markets. Most studies of the relationship between FDI and FMD have focused on the role … of FMD in the link between FDI and economic growth, with no deep understanding of direct causality between FDI and FMD …

This paper uses a composite measure to examine why some countries attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) than … others. The measure considers all identified, measurable, and comparable socioeconomic aspects that affect FDI decisions on … an aggregated country level. As a result, we can rank 127 countries with respect to their FDI attraction. The measure …