How Different are FDI and FPI Flows?: Distance and Capital Market Integration

Rabin Hattari (rhattari@adb.org) and Ramkishen Rajan
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Rabin Hattari: Asian Development Bank, Postal: Public Management Economist, Financial Setor, Public, Management and Trade Division, Southeast Asia Department, 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550, Metro Manil, USA

Journal of Economic Integration, 2011, vol. 26, 499-525

Abstract: The availability of bilateral capital flows between countries has given rise to a number of papers attempting to understand trends and determinants of capital flows between country pairs. Almost without exception, the papers find that the gravity model fits the data quite well. Specifically, while economic sizes of the host and source (measured by GDP, population etc) appear to positively impact bilateral flows in most cases, distance -- broadly proxying some sort of transactions and / or information frictions -- stands out as consistently hindering all types of capital flows. But does greater distance hinder both foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows equally? In other words, does distance change the composition of capital flows? This is the specific question that this paper focuses on, differentiating between total FDI, FDI via mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and FPI.

Keywords: Distance; Foreign Direct Investment (FDI); Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI); Gravity; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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