The Economic and Institutional Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments

Maxime Delabarre ()
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Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the economic and institutional determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the world post-2000. To this end, I analyze the inwards stocks of FDIs using unilateral and bilateral data. Based on the UNCTAD database, I also study the impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on the inflow of FDIs. Main results provide evidence supporting the idea that treaties increase the inflows of FDIs in the years following their signature. However, regulations aimed at increasing the protection of property rights have a larger effect on the attractiveness for investors. This paper does not find robust evidence demonstrating that political stability and corruption level have significant effects. More, I demonstrate that an increase of tariffs in the host country results in an increase of FDIs, supposedly due to relocation processes.

Keywords: FDI; economics; law; investments; institutions; political; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-fdg, nep-int and nep-isf
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