 Drivers of genuine FDI inflows in advanced economiesKonstantinos Dellis, David Sondermann and Isabel Vansteenkiste The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2022, vol. 84, issue C, 407-419 Abstract: In this paper we empirically investigate the drivers of genuine FDI inflows in advanced economies for the period 1985–2018. Our contribution to the existing literature is two-fold. First, we use newly available data of genuine FDI flows analysing the role of statistical artefacts, such as special purpose entities and financial round-tripping in headline FDI data. Second, we augment the traditional analysis on the drivers of FDI inflows in advanced economies by considering a range of potential factors which are under the policy makers’ control, i.e. measures that proxy for a country's quality of economic structures. Our results show that it is important to get the data right. In particular, more recently, total FDI data became increasingly distorted thus prompting misspecifications if not cleaned beforehand. Moreover, we suggest that there is a significant empirical relation between the quality of a host country's economic structures and FDI inflows. Our findings are robust to various economic specifications. Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Economic structures; Institutions; Advanced economies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:quaeco:v:84:y:2022:i:c:p:407-419 DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2020.09.004 Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance is currently edited by R. J. Arnould and J. E. Finnerty More articles in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance from Elsevier |
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