[PDF] Top 20 Foreign direct investment spillovers: additional lessons from a country study

... The results in this section show that there are significant sector specific effects to be considered when explaining the productivity variation; the adjusted R 2 increases from 0.868 in Table 4 to 0.924 in Table ... See full document

... The estimation results are reported in Table 6. It is interesting to compare the coefficients in this table with those in the related column of Table 4. The four significant independent variables’ coefficients in the ... See full document

... must be ensured so that investors’ intentions can be translated in actual investment. In 2014, Portugal registered almost 9000 million dollars of inward FDI, a very small value when compared with other major ... See full document

... drawn from Business International (BI), now incorporated into The Economist Intelligence ...the country; (6) Terrorism: The degree to which individuals and businesses are subject to acts of terrorism; (7) ... See full document

... host country (UNCTAD ...shift from piece meal approach in foreign investment during 80’s to develop more liberal open door policies in 1990’s, India has gradually opened the numerous sectors ... See full document

... their study of why large firms internalize business operations outside of production such as marketing, training, research and development, and involvement with financial markets and how these functions can be ... See full document

... host country aspects (Buckley et al, 2007; Zhang and Daly, 2011; Kolstad and Wiig, 2012), several other empirical studies have focused on home country factors to explain outward foreign direct ... See full document

... firm’s foreign investment, since (i) firms have to pay bribes (similar to taxes), (ii) they are engaged in resource-wasting rent seeking activities (Applebaum and Katz, 1987; Murphy et ...bear ... See full document

... the investment receiver countries need to prepare themselves in order to receive those ...import foreign technology and have available skills to manage and use those ...attract foreign ... See full document

... their study that education has a positive effect on FDI, although it is not statistically ...benefit from FDI and has an important role in attracting FDI (Khraswish &Siam, ...the Country Risk, ... See full document

... freedom, foreign direct investment and economic growth us- ing panel data for a sample of 18 Latin American countries over the pe- riod spanning 1970 through ...host country requires adequate ... See full document

... this study, by language we mean the same language type that is internationally standardized but with local differences in terms of dialect (a particular form of a language specific to a region), specific ... See full document

... Foreign direct investment (FDI) is recognised today as one of the most vital motors for the stimulation of a country’s development, and of real convergence with more developed ...the direct ... See full document

... If we consider only correlations higher than 0.5 in absolute value, three sectors oppose the other six. Indeed, high negative correlations are associated with textiles (32), wood and cork (33) and non-metallic (36), ... See full document

... economy. From 1995 to 2012, Brazil has received $ ...developing country recipient of FDI and the fourth worldwide ...capital investment, have not played host to FDI in a significant ...this ... See full document

... that investment occur in Netherlands once any operating activity has been performed and the companies are normally do not have the proper resources to the activities carried out or are ...of investment in ... See full document

... in foreign direct investment (hence- forth FDI) in the recent inancial crisis, we address the question of whether the availability of alternative inancing sources could help reduce the size of the ... See full document

... rates, foreign exchange rates, land and property rents/rates, fuel costs, local input costs (where applicable), level of taxation, transportation costs, and cost of capital are other key cost‐related locational ... See full document

... The number of co integration vectors (r) is tested using the trace with the constant within and outside the co integration vectors. The test statistic (T) is the calculated trace test, associated with the number of co ... See full document

... of investment reported that three factors together constitute the driving forces of foreign direct investment FDI flows towards developing ... See full document