Financial efficiency and accounting quality: The impact of institutional micro-factors on FDI
Jouahn Nam,
Joseph Bon Sesay,
Kevin Wynne and
Ge Zhang
Journal of Policy Modeling, 2020, vol. 42, issue 2, 451-465
Abstract:
In this paper, we explore whether factors such as financial markets and accounting qualities contribute to foreign direct investment (FDI). We use a unique data source: the survey data from World Economic Forum, to measure the efficiency of the financial markets and the quality of accounting standards. With this unique data, we demonstrate that financial markets and accounting quality are important factors of FDI inflow into a country. In particular, FDI is positively correlated with the strength of financial audits and reporting standards and venture capital availability for all countries. We also show that accounting quality measures are more important for developing and emerging countries than for developed countries. On the other hand, financial market measures, especially the access to venture capital, have a bigger impact in attracting FDI flow into developed countries. These results support the hypothesis that local financial markets and accounting quality affect FDI. The results have strong policy implications for governmental regulatory agencies.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); Accounting quality; Financial markets; Policy implications; Logistic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 F33 I38 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.12.004
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