Nexus of Economic Misery, Interest rate, Exchange rate and Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan

Allah Ditta and Ahmad Hassan
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Allah Ditta: Department of Economics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Ahmad Hassan: Department of Economics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 2017, vol. 6, issue 1, 35-44

Abstract: This study investigates the impact of economic misery, exchange rate and interest rate on foreign direct investment (FDI) in case of Pakistan over the period of 1972- 2013. The time series data for all variables is collected from various issues of Economic Surveys of Pakistan, State bank of Pakistan and WDI. This study has used Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Philips Perron (PP) unit root tests for stationarity of the variables and Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) is used for co-integration among the variables of the model. The results show that there is negative and insignificant impact of economic misery and political instability on FDI in Pakistan. Exchange rate has positive and significant relationship with FDI over the selected time period. Exports have a negative and insignificant impact of FDI. Interest rate and GDP has a positive and significant relationship with FDI in case of Pakistan.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Interest Rate and Foreign Direct Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E4 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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