Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment

By David Leblang. American Political Science Review, 2010

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Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments (2018, methodology): “Judicial quality in the origin is from Nunn (2007); genetic distance is from Spolaore and Wacziarg (2015); and Ethnic Fractionalization refers to 1 minus the Herfindahl index of ethnicities in the origin country calculated using the data in Alesina et al.”
Immigrant remittances and the venture investment environment of developing countries (2011, background): “Levitt (1998) points out that remittances include new ideas and underlying relationships with people, who may have suggested a new business initiative to an immigrant in his or her host country, or who may have helped get the initiative up and running in his or her home country.”
Cultural Differences and Geography as Determinants of Online Prosocial Lending (2014, background): “This is an important point, because a number of researchers have shown that individuals prefer to “invest” their funds in the familiar (Huberman 2001; Leblang 2010).”
Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century (2016, background): “Leblang (2010) finds countries linked by larger migrant networks generate more investment into migrants’ country of origin.”