Liberalization, FDI, and Growth in Developing Countries: A Panel Cointegration Approach

Parantap Basu, Chandana Chakraborty and Derrick Reagle

Economic Inquiry, 2003, vol. 41, issue 3, 510-516

Abstract: Using a panel cointegration framework, the article explores the two-way link between FDI and growth for a panel of 23 developing countries. In addition, it investigates the impact of liberalization on the dynamics of the FDI and GDP relationship. A long-run cointegrating relationship is found between FDI and GDP after allowing for heterogeneous country effects. The cointegrating vectors reveal a bidirectional causality between GDP and FDI for more open economies. For relatively closed economies, long-run causality appears unidirectional and runs from GDP to FDI, implying that growth and FDI are not mutually reinforcing under restrictive trade and investment regimes. (JEL F43) Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.

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Date: 2003
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