Policymakers in developing countries have increasingly pinned their hopes on bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in 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 inconclusive empirical findings of earl...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) brings host countries capital, productive facilities, and technology transfers, as well as new jobs and management expertise. Thus, it is important to understand the basic reasons for FDI inflow and make clear what gains from FDI are. In the present paper, based on theoretical findings we formulate clear message stating that inflow of FDI does not need to be expl...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a vital mechanism in modern economic development. In many transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe FDI is particularly seen as the main source of catching-up with more developed countries of European Union. This paper contributes to the methodology of evaluating the impact of FDI on the host country by taking into account the impact of FDI both on te...

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...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to long term participation by country A into country B. There are two types of FDI: inward FDI and outward FDI. Many African countries have already done much to create a more business-friendly environment and many have made impressive progress towards political and economic stability. In their efforts to revive economic activity they have scaled down burea...

The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was established using auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) models in the presence of a mix of I (0) and I (1) variables. The control variables, inflation and trade openness were statistically significant in the short run. Whilst inflation exerted...

Using bilateral Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) data, we find that differences in time zones have a negative and significant effect on the location of FDI. Furthermore, once we control for time zone differences, the effect of distance on FDI is substantially reduced and, in most cases, no longer significant. Time zones also have a negative effect on trade, but this effect is much smaller than t...

in recent decades, foreign direct investment (fdi) has played a vital role in economic growth of developed and developing countries. fdi brings new capital and technology to the host country beside a possibility of spillover to local firms. hence, fdi is considered as an important channel of technology transfer. however, in empirical studies, the size and direction of effects of fdi on producti...

【Keyword】China, investment promotion agency, firm-level data, sample selection 【Abstract】This paper tries to verify how the establishment of investment promotion agencies (IPAs) affects the decisions of foreign firms regarding their subsequent investment by combining firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey with city-level information on (IPAs) in China. After correcting for pote...

Competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) among developing countries has intensified in recent years. Using a sample of 68 developing countries across dif ferent regions, with data from 1975-2005, this paper investigates whether Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) dif fers from non-LAC regions in regard to determinants of FDI; the evidence suggests that there are dif ferences. In partic...