FDI theories. A location-based approach
Oana Popovici and
Adrian Cantemir Calin
Romanian Economic Journal, 2014, vol. 17, issue 53, 3-24
Abstract:
Given the importance of FDI for the economic growth of both home and host countries, the aim of this paper is to assess the importance granted to location advantages during the development of FDI theory. We start with the earliest theoretical directions as regards FDI location issues and extend our study to describing less debated theories, but of a particular importance for this theme. In this way, we have the opportunity to emphasize the changes in FDI location determinants. We find that a direction of the FDI theories’ expansion is due to the incorporation of new variables on location, although the location advantages are barely mentioned in the first explanations regarding the international activity of the firms
Keywords: foreign direct investments; location; OLI paradigm; new economic geography; institutional theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 F60 H10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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