Determinant of FDI Inflows in OIC Countries

The Political Economy of Democracy and FDI Inflows in Oil Countries

The Effects of Fdi Inflows on Host Country Economic Growth

The paper starts by discussing and modelling the potential of FDI to affect host country economic growth. The paper argues that out of two primary channels for FDI effects on economic growth, inflows of physical capital and technology spillovers respectively, it is technology spillovers that have the strongest potential to enhance economic growth in the host country. Using panel data analysis t...

Capital inflows and investment in developing countries

Economic Growth and FDI Inflows: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Despite plausible theoretical grounds for presuming a positive relationship between foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) and economic growth, existing empirical evidence on this nexus is inconclusive. In an effort to add to the empirical literature, this paper estimates the relationship between FDI and the rate of growth of GDP using a stochastic frontier model and employing panel data cover...

Follow the Money: Remittance Responses to FDI Inflows

Migrant networks are an important catalyst for promoting FDI flows between countries. Migrants also send increasingly large remittances to their home countries. This paper considers how these two capital flows are related, specifically examining how remittance flows respond to the amount of FDI inflows to a country. Using a panel of 118 countries over 1980-2010, we estimate a random effects mod...