This article attempts to investigate the potential relationship and significance of various determinants Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in India for 1980–2016 time period. Specifically, this is achieved two stages. In first, standard growth accounting approach used measure changes TFP. Then, main model establishing TFP estimated using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Our results su...

In this paper we study the effect of quality of institutions in the OECD and Asian host countries on outward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks of source OECD countries using International Country Risk Guide governance indicators, for the period 1991 to 2001. We find that better institutions in the host countries have an overall positive and significant effect on source countries outward FD...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has dramatically increased worldwide and is the most important form of all private capital flows to developing countries. Yet, it is an important empirical question whether FDI affects total factor productivity (TFP) positively. We investigate the effect of FDI on TFP growth in a large sample of countries in 1970–2000. Our econometric results indicate that FDI ha...

This paper examines the effects of exchange rates on R&D activities and international strategy choices of the oligopolies. We develop a three-stage game-theoretic model in which two firms located in two different countries (a developing and a developed one) choose the mode of foreign expansion in the first stage. They decide how much to spend on R&D, and how much to sell in domestic and foreign...

This article examines how financial constraints and product market exposures determine the response of multinational and local firms to sharp depreciations. U.S. multinational affiliates increase sales, assets, and investment significantly more than local firms during, and subsequent to, depreciations. Differing product market exposures do not explain these differences in performance. Instead, ...

Abstract The study examines the growth effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality in Nigeria between 1970 and 2013. Variables like per capita income, environmental degradation, foreign direct investment, human capital, inflation, trade openness, interest rate, and the interaction term between foreign direct investment and carbon emission were employed in the study. A long r...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F23 H25 Keywords: Corporate taxation International profit shifting Real options FDI The relation between taxation states and foreign direct investment (FDI) has been studied from several perspectives and with states at different levels of development. Most previous studies, however, have only considered the impact of tax level on FDI volume. This paper ...

nowadays, countries realize that without having knowledge and technology, they may not export advantaged goods to the global market. generally, technology and knowledge accumulation play vital role for reaching high economic growth rate and economic development. the statistical reports show that iran has not been successful in the high-tech export area; base on those reports, iran’s high-tech e...