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Structural change and foreign direct investment : globalization and regional economic integration
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This paper investigates flows of inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and FDI-to-GDP ratios in a sample of 62 countries over a 30 year time span. Using several endogenous structural break procedures (allowing for one and two break points), we find that: (1) the great majority of the series have structural breaks in the last 15 years, (2) post-break FDI and FDI/GDP ratios are substantially higher than the pre-break values, and (3) most breaks seem to be related to globalization, regional economic integration, economic growth, or political instability. Static and dynamic panel-data analy- ses accounting for and/or addressing endogeneity, simultaneity, nonstationar- ity, heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence show that FDI is negatively related to exchange rate volatility and GDP per capita, but positively related to some regional integration agreements, trade openness, GDP, and GDP growth. Most notably, the European Union is the only regional economic integration unit found to consistently have significant and positive effects on FDI.
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Openness Structural breaks Endogeneity Heterogeneity Cross sectional dependence Common correlated effects
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Citação
Pereira, Álvaro Santos, João Tovar Jalles e Martin A. Andresen (2012). "Structural change and foreign direct investment : globalization and regional economic integration". Portuguese Economic Journal, 11(1):35-82
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Springer Verlag