Revista: | Latin american journal of economics |
Base de datos: | CLASE |
Número de sistema: | 000418680 |
ISSN: | 0719-0425 |
Autores: | Williams, Kevin1 |
Instituciones: | 1University of the West Indies, Department of Economics, Kingston. Jamaica |
Año: | 2015 |
Periodo: | May |
Volumen: | 52 |
Número: | 1 |
Paginación: | 57-77 |
País: | Chile |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
Enfoque: | Analítico |
Resumen en inglés | Competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) among developing countries has intensified in recent years. Using a sample of 68 developing countries across different regions, with data from 1975-2005, this paper investigates whether Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) differs from non-LAC regions in regard to determinants of FDI; the evidence suggests that there are differences. In particular, the stock of infrastructure attracts FDI to LAC and constraints on the executive and high debt discourage FDI to non-LAC. These findings are robust to sample size, different estimators, endogeneity, and country fixed effects |
Disciplinas: | Economía |
Palabras clave: | Balanza de pagos y deuda externa, Condiciones económicas, Inversión extranjera directa, América Latina, Caribe, Países en desarrollo |
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