Foreign Direct Investment, Institutions, and Domestic Investment in Developing Countries: Is there a Crowding-Out Effect?

Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé (), Djiby Racine Thiam () and Mamadou Abdoulaye Konté ()
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Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé: University of Cape Town (UCT)
Djiby Racine Thiam: University of Cape Town (UCT)
Mamadou Abdoulaye Konté: Université Gaston Berger (UGB)

Comparative Economic Studies, 2025, vol. 67, issue 1, No 6, 261 pages

Abstract: Abstract Despite using a common database for a sample of 46 developing countries to evaluate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on domestic investment (DI), two recent articles on the subject (Morrissey and Udomkerdmongkol in World Dev 40(3):437–445. 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.004, 2012 and Farla et al. in World Dev 88:1–9, 2016. 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.008), produced conflicting results. The current paper contributes to the debate by using a larger panel database of 105 developing countries from 2002 to 2018 while controlling for financial development. We make use of the system generalized method of moments (S-GMM). Our findings do not support a crowding-in effect of FDI; instead, we found that FDI crowded out domestic investment. The findings underscore that institutions played no role in the FDI–DI nexus. Furthermore, there is no strong evidence that good institutions promoted investment in developing countries from 2002 to 2018.

Keywords: FDI; Domestic investment; Institutions; Developing countries; GMM estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 F21 F23 F30 O16 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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