[PDF] Top 20 The influence of Doing Business’ institutional variables in Foreign Direct Investment

... Concerning institutional variables of Doing Business’ report, it constitutes a vast set of information on business regulations, covering 9 different areas (33 ... See full document

... in the need to use a specific technique that in turn would deal with the difficulties derived from the utilization of the relational variables and not attributes ... See full document

... understand the differences between countries in their various facets, but it also helps to explain the motivations for international ...On the one hand, the inefficiencies in ... See full document

... affirm in their study that education has a positive effect on FDI, although it is not statistically ...significant. In fact, for some authors (Brooks, Hasan, Lee, Son & Zhuang, 2010) is necessary to ... See full document

... attracting foreign investors, but the measures should also seek to retain the existing investors in the ...most of these investors are engaged in trading across borders, ... See full document

... introduced the concept of institutions in transaction cost economics, focused on the establishment of rules and mechanisms that allows the protection of business ... See full document

... assess the determinants of Chinese direct investment in Africa compared with those of global ...FDI in Africa. Institutional variables, such as ... See full document

... at the second model the fi ndings for the comparison of the choice of location between Bucharest-Ilfov versus Center region indicate that only two variables have signifi ... See full document

... probability of awareness is used in the second step as one of the regressors to test the likelihood of have used each of the ...Then, the econometric ... See full document

... as business facilitators. The relevant literature recognizes that intending to attract FDI, governments have been increasingly focusing their policy efforts to reduce administrative and legislative ... See full document

... models the outward foreign direct investment from Brazil series using time a series econometrics model, namely the Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) ...for the key relevant factors ... See full document

... The influence of taxes on FDI attraction has been the subject of extensive empirical literature in the past few ...However, the results have been far from ... See full document

... examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Portugal, ...why foreign companies are located in Portugal. The compression of the determinants ... See full document

... relatively the host country determinants of ...into the three groups. These are politic factors, business facilitation and economic ...analyzed the determinants of FDI to ... See full document

... deters investment flows to the ...that the lack of good legal and judiciary systems is a possible deterrent to FDI in ...Africa. The institution of the judiciary is  ... See full document

... assesses the common perception that FDI in African countries is manly driven by natural resources and market ...given the importance of FDI in the region, the author uses ... See full document

... Foreign direct investment is a method to finance domestic investment especially for the countries that don't have enough capital, promotes advanced technology and management and ... See full document

... Recently the researchers of international foreign investment as in Pantelidis and Nikolopoulos (2008), Jeon and Rhee (2008), Maniam (2007), Skabic and Orlic (2007), and Rodriguez and ... See full document

... 3,535.93 in 1995, R$ 11,257.51 in 2000 and R$ 7,990.37 in 2010, we have in 1995 the state of Maranhão with the lowest value R$ ...6.90 in 2000 and Acre with R$ 4.50 ... See full document

... Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased significantly over the past two ...attention in discovering the relation between the inflow of FDI and economic growth ... See full document