This study examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth, making a comparison between selected countries of Africa and Asia. We utilized data for 30 countries 2009. The Hausman among OLS, fixed effect and random effect models. First, aggregate data and later disaggregated the data in assess the regional impact of FDI on ec that FDI has positive relationship with GDP growth also...

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...

The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing countries in gen...

Article history: Received 12 October 2012 Received in revised form 24 April 2013 Accepted 20 August 2013 Available online xxxx Industrial competitiveness (IC) is a country's ability to produce and export manufactured goods competitively. Howdoes foreign direct investment (FDI) affect IC in China? The significance of the topic, besides the intrinsic importance of IC, is heightened by outstanding...

INTRODUCTION MICAP is a new notation in which the teeth are indicated by letters (I-incisor, C-canine, P-premolar, M-molar) and numbers [1,2,3] which are written superscript and subscript on the relevant letters. FDI tooth notation is a two digit system where one digit shows quadrant and the second one shows the tooth of the quadrant. This study aimed to compare the short term retention of know...

The study attempts to test a hypothesis and explore some additional empirical evidences of a causal relationship between International Tourist Arrivals, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Economic Growth (GDP). Although tourism has been regarded as one of the most dynamic economic industries in the world, the previous studies of the causality between three variables are exceptionally rare. In ...

This paper develops a quality ladder model in which the technology gap between the North and the South is endogenously determined. Foreign direct investments (FDI) occur cyclically: New FDI arrives if and only if the technology gap reaches some threshold. A stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) in the South discourages imitation and reduces the FDI cycle length. A smaller market size and ...

Following the notion of skill-biased FDI fl ows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefi t from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional confl ict that might turn into heterogeneous attitudes toward FDI infl ows in line with skill. In this paper ...

In an international oligopoly model, this paper investigates interaction between trade liberalization in goods and liberalization in service FDI. Since some services are market-specific and have non-tradable nature, a foreign firm has a higher cost in service provisions compared to its domestic competitor and it can overcome the disadvantage by either outsourcing services to the domestic compet...

Foreign investors access local knowledge by co-locating with other foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. However, different aspects of local knowledge can be obtained from different local businesses. Thus, some foreign investors co-locate with FDI firms from the same country of origin, while others co-locate with foreign industry peers. We argue that, relative to industry FDI agglomeration, co...