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El Vínculo Inversión Extranjera Directa Y Desigualdad Salarial En Los Estados Mexicanos, Vicente German-Soto, Nohemí Marcela Ríos González
El Vínculo Inversión Extranjera Directa Y Desigualdad Salarial En Los Estados Mexicanos, Vicente German-Soto, Nohemí Marcela Ríos González
Vicente German-Soto
Fdi, Education, And Economic Growth: Quality Matters!, Miao Wang, M. C. Sunny Wong
Fdi, Education, And Economic Growth: Quality Matters!, Miao Wang, M. C. Sunny Wong
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
In this paper, we revisit the results from the influential study by Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998), which argues that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes the economic growth in a less developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998) only focus on the quantity of education. We take into consideration both the quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International Economics 45:115–135, 1998) by two quality of education …
Three Essays On Fdi In China, Mingming Pan
Three Essays On Fdi In China, Mingming Pan
College of Business: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has contributed a great deal to China’s extraordinary growth by injecting capital into the economy, creating jobs, transferring technology and knowledge, enhancing trade, bringing in competition for local enterprises, improving the quality of local labor and intermediate goods suppliers, and connecting China’s gradually opening economy to the global market. For over a decade, China has been the second largest recipient of inward FDI in the world behind the United States. In 2009, China received $95 billion, which is 8.5% of the world’s total. However, the large amount of inward FDI has been unevenly distributed across Chinese …
The Gravity Of R&D Fdis, Antonello Zanfei, Davide Castellani, Alfredo Jimenez Palmero
The Gravity Of R&D Fdis, Antonello Zanfei, Davide Castellani, Alfredo Jimenez Palmero
Antonello Zanfei
The gravity model predicts that international trade and FDI should fade with geographic distance. The negative effect of distance is justified by the existence of transport costs which hamper the international exchange of final and intermediate goods, and by higher uncertainty about local markets. We submit that distance plays a remarkably different role in the case of R&D FDIs since they mainly involve the international transfer, absorption and use of knowledge. Using data on bilateral investment projects in R&D, manufacturing and other business activities between 58 countries, we find that geographic distance does not hinder R&D FDIs as much as …
The Role Of Institutional Quality In Fdi Inflows In Sub-Saharan Africa, Mulugeta Kahsai, Yohannes G. Hailu, Chali Nondo, Peter V. Schaeffer
The Role Of Institutional Quality In Fdi Inflows In Sub-Saharan Africa, Mulugeta Kahsai, Yohannes G. Hailu, Chali Nondo, Peter V. Schaeffer
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
During the period 2000 to 2008, Africa’s collective GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9 percent. Even though previous studies argue that strengthened and improved institutional quality is key determinant for attracting foreign direct investment to Africa, we find no evidence to that effect. Using a panel data for 45 Sub-Saharan African countries (SSH), we estimate the role of institutional quality (governance) in attracting FDI inflow during the 1996-2007 period. After controlling for country and time specific effects and the economic environment of the host country, we find no significant evidence of the impact of institutional quality on FDI …