Foreign Direct Investment and Host-Country Trading Blocs

The Country Risks and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

T he importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has begun to spread very rapidly, especially after the transition of command economies countries into open markets. Many countries see attracting FDI as an important element in their strategy for economic growth because FDI is widely regarded as an amalgamation of capital, technology, marketing, and management...

Are Stricter Investment Rules Contagious? Host Country Competition for Foreign Direct Investment through International Agreements

We argue that the trend toward international investment agreements (IIAs) with stricter investment rules is driven by competitive diffusion, namely defensive moves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting for spatial dependence in the formation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and preferential trade...

Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment : the role of industry and host - country characteristics

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First, FDI is analyzed on a sectorally and regionally disaggregated level. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity, but also the quality of FDI. Third, we check to which extent the relationship between IPR prote...

The Determinants of Host Country Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Review and Synthesis of the Literature

Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Diffusion, and Host Country Productivity Growth (No. 272)

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