Bilateral foreign direct investment in forest industry between the U.S. and Canada

Rao V. Nagubadi and Daowei Zhang

Forest Policy and Economics, 2011, vol. 13, issue 5, 338-344

Abstract: In this study we examine the trends and various factors influencing bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) in the U.S. and Canadian forest industry between 1989 and 2008. Using panel data analysis methods, we find that bilateral FDI is positively influenced by depreciation of host country's real exchange rates and exchange rate volatility, and home country's forest product imports and exports and round wood production, and negatively by home country's GDP, current outward FDI position in the rest of the world, and current domestic capital expenditure has no effect on the FDI in the forest industry. These results imply that both imports and exports are complementary to outward FDI and that bilateral FDI is a substitute of FDI to the rest of the word.

Keywords: Foreign; direct; investment; Forest; products; trade; Real; exchange; rate; Exchange; rate; volatility; Domestic; capital; expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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