This paper empirically investigates the various effects that source and destination countries'
financial development (SFD and DFD respectively) have on foreign direct investment (FDI) …

This paper examines the effect that a country's business regulatory environment has on the
amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank's Ease of Doing …

Abstract Model averaging has become a popular method of estimation, following increasing
evidence that model selection and estimation should be treated as one joint procedure …

While most research on foreign direct investment (FDI) focuses on the 'real'economy, at least
30% of global FDI stock is intermediated through tax havens. Using 2010 IMF data on FDI …

We develop a multi-country trade model with domestic investment in physical capital and
foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. Gravity sub …

While foreign direct investment (FDI) is known to be the most stable type of international
capital flows, it may be particularly susceptible to heightened uncertainty because of its high …

A major role for per-capita income in international trade, as opposed to simply country size,
was persuasively advanced by many early economists including Linder (1961), Kuznets …

Identifying the robust determinants of corruption among cultural, economic, institutional, and
geographical factors has proven difficult. From a policy perspective, it is important to know …

Based on an exogenous quasi-natural experiment, combined with administrative data from
International Trade Statistics and the China Global Investment Tracker database, this study …

Although the relationship between trade and the success of international sanctions has
been a topic of many debates in political economy over the past 30 years, the effect of …