The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments: Sensitivity Analyses of Cross‐Country Regressions

By AVIK CHAKRABARTI. 2001

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• On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries: Is Africa Different? (2002, positive): “Table 3 presents the e€ects of six variables that have been widely used in the literature (for an extensive survey see Chakrabarti, 2001, and Gastanaga et al., 1998).”
• THE DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN PAKISTAN (2004, background): “Numerous empirical studies (Agarwal, 1980; Gastanaga et. al., 1998; Chakrabarti, 2001; and Moosa, 2002) on the determinants of FDI lead us to select a set of explanatory variables that are widely used and found to be significant determinants of FDI.”
• What determines Chinese outward FDI (2012, positive): “We add a number of control variables that have been found to be of importance in previous studies of host country determinants of global FDI flows (see Chakrabarti (2001) or Blonigen (2005) for reviews).”
• MIRAGE, a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Trade Policy Analysis (2002, background): “It is noteworthy that this rate of return incorporates the influence of many FDI determinants identified in the empirical literature, (see for example Chakrabarti, 2001, for a recent survey) such as market size, growth rate or market potential.”
• Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Growth: New Evidence from Latin-America (2003, positive): “Hidalgo (2000) document that this variable positively affected investment flows from US to Mexicobetween1967and1994. Chakrabarti(2001) considersthisvariableasaratherrobust determinant of FDI.”
• Does the Diversification–Firm Performance Relationship Change Over Time? A Meta‐Analytical Review (2018, positive): “These macroeconomic indicators are frequently used in cross-country studies and together also measure market size (Chakrabarti, 2001; Christmann et al., 1999; Fauver et al., 2003; Papageorgiadis et al., 2013; Qian et al., 2010, 2013).”
• Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria: An Empirical Analysis (2010, background): “…OF RELEVANT LITERATURE AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Many studies have cited the host country’s market size (measured by the Gross Domestic Product, GDP) as an important determinant of FDI inflows (Raggazi, 1973; Moore, 1993; Wang and Swain, 1995; Chakrabarti, 2001 and Masayuki and Ivohasina, 2005).”
• Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Development, and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Arab Countries (2003, background): “For more on the evidence, see the robust empirical findings by Chakrabarti (2001) for 135 countries, and Sadik and Bolbol (2001b) for the Arab countries.”
• Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries (2005, neutral): “They are also among the ones more consistently found to be determinants of FDI flows (Chakrabarti 2001).”
• The Impact of FDI Inflows and Environmental Quality on Economic Growth: an Empirical Study for the MENA Countries (2017, background): “On the other hand, other empirical studies, Barrell and Pain 1999; Chakrabarti 2001; Schiff and Wang 2008; Batten and Vo 2009; Hooi and Wah 2010; Aizhan and Makaevna 2011; Soltani and Ochi 2012; and Melnyk et al. 2014) confirm that there is a positive impact of FDI inflow on economic growth.”
• FDI by early movers, followers and latecomers: timing of entry by German firms during transition in the Czech Republic (2011, neutral): “Chakrabarti, A. (2001). The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: Sensitivity Analyses of Cross-country Regressions. Kyklos 54 (1): 89-114. Chang, P.-L., and C.-H. Lu (2009). Risk, Firm Heterogeneity, and Dynamics of FDI Entry. http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/plchang/papers/Hetero_FDI.pdf. Egger, ”
• Determinants of foreign direct investment in Malaysia (2008, result): “The result that a larger domestic market induces more FDI is in line with previous studies, including Wang and Swain (1995), Chakrabarti (2001) and Ramirez (2006).”
• Exploring the relationship between institutional factors and FDI attractiveness: A meta-analytic review (2018, result): “…between tax rates and FDI is also inconsistent: several scholars find a negative and significant relationship between tax rates and FDI (e.g. Gastanaga et al., 1998; Loree & Guisinger, 1995), while others find no significant relationship (Chakrabarti, 2001; Swenson, 1994; Wheeler &Mody, 1992).”
• Do double taxation treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries? (2006, background): “They are also among the ones more consistently found to be determinants of FDI (Chakrabarti, 2001).”