order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …

order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … previously unpublished dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …

This paper uses dynamic panel data methods to examine the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Central … role in determining the flows of FDI into the CEECs and help explain the di®erent attractiveness for FDI of the individual …

foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, divestments are quite common among the operations of MNEs. In order to derive …: the presence of MNEs, further extended to include unemployment. The model is applied to the Spanish economy, where FDI …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI … undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries … suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of Singapore's FDI differ from those of FDI undertaken by major …