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Digging in the dirt? Extractive industry FDI and corruption

Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig

Economics of Governance, 2013, vol. 14, issue 4, 369-383

Abstract: Does corruption attract or deter foreign investment in the extractive sectors? This article presents an econometric analysis of extractive industry foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to 81 countries in the period 1996–2009. The results suggest that increased corruption within a country is associated with increased extractive industry FDI, but at a diminishing rate as corruption increases grow larger. For realistic changes in corruption, however, more corruption is associated with more extractive industry investment. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Keywords: Corruption; Governance; Mining; Quarrying; Petroleum; Extractive industries; B23; D73; N50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s10101-013-0133-2

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