Provincial Foreign Direct Investment Absorptive Capacity of Vietnam

Foreign Direct Investment Absorptive Capacity Theory

By reviewing the existing literature and empirical investigation, we build a socalled Photosynthesis model which argues that a recipient developing country only achieves benefits from FDI once they have sufficient absorptive capacity related to human capital resource, absorptive capacity of domestic firm, financial systems, physical infrastructure, technological, and institutional development. ...

Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

This short paper explores the complementarity between foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI). Recent studies on aid concluded that aid should come to an end or be reduced with a radical modification of the terms and conditions and FDI and trade should replace aid as the engine of development. In this paper, we argue that aid complements FDI and advances the efficacy of FDI in promoting...

Growth Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: What Role for Liberalisation and Absorptive Capacity?

this paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over the role of host country factors in conditioning the growth effects of foreign direct investment (FDI). Within a general cross-country growth empirics framework, a newly compiled dataset is used to test the hypothesis that countries which adopt a liberal approach to the regulation of FDI benefit more from a given flow of foreign investmen...

Environmental Regulations and Foreign Direct Investment Provincial Evidence from China

Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there is some heterogeneity in r...