Identifying FDI types: Watch what they do, not what they say or look like

JaeBin Ahn and Jee-Hyeong Park

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 213, issue C

Abstract: This note compares three different schemes to identify FDI types and documents that correlation among different classification schemes is extremely low. Empirical exercises in line with the proximity-concentration tradeoff hypothesis support the sales information based scheme.

Keywords: FDI classification; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110346

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