THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Foreign direct investment in the financial sector - experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America - June 2005

No 25 Foreign direct investment in the financial sector-experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America Summary of follow-up workshops to the CGFS report, " Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging economies " June 2005 Copies of publications are available from:

THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUSINESS SCHOOL Formation of social capital in Central and Eastern Europe: Understanding the gap vis-à-vis developed countries

THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Regional Determinants of FDI Distribution in Poland

In this paper we examine the location determinants of the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Poland, at a regional level. Using survey data from an online questionnaire in February 2005 and a multinomial logit model incorporating the investor’s specific characteristics, we show that knowledge-seeking factors alongside market and agglomeration factors, act as the main drivers for the...

Achieving Regional Convergence through the Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment: Evidence from ASEAN+3

T he purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of foreign direct investment and portfolio investment on the convergence occurrence of economic growth of countries in the ASEAN + 3 region and to determine the time or speed required to achieve convergence. The type of data used in this research is secondary data panel which is combination between time series data and cross-section...

Reassessing Pension Reform in Chile and Other Countries in Latin America1

Chile has been a world pioneer in the structural reform of social security pensions and influenced similar changes in Latin America and Eastern Europe, as well as the programs of international financial organizations and the world debate on the subject. More than two decades have elapsed since the Chilean reform was implemented and several other countries in Latin America have accumulated impor...