Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs and the Investment Share of FDI*
Joshua Aizenman and
Mark Spiegel
Review of International Economics, 2006, vol. 14, issue 4, 683-697
Abstract:
This paper models and tests the implications of institutional efficiency on the pattern of FDI. We posit that domestic agents have a comparative advantage over foreign agents in overcoming some of the obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. Under these circumstances, FDI is more sensitive to increases in enforcement costs. We then test this prediction, comparing institutional efficiency levels for a large cross‐section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows through the period of 1990–99, finding that institutional efficiency is positively associated with the ratio of subsequent foreign direct investment flows to both gross fixed capital formation and to private investment.
Date: 2006
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