research notes and comments: A note on Australia's inward and outward direct foreign investment

MoonJoong Tcha ()
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MoonJoong Tcha: Department of Economics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia

Papers in Regional Science, 1999, vol. 78, issue 1, 89-100

Abstract: This research note investigates the determinants of Australia's inward and outward direct foreign investment (DFI) using annual and quarterly data. It is found from pooled annual data for Australia and seven developed countries that DFI has been influenced by labor disputes, current account balances, Australia's real GDP and real exchange rates. The application of an econometric model using quarterly data shows that the long run elasticities of DFI with respect to real exchange rates and labor disputes are significant for selected cases.

Keywords: Direct foreign investment (DFI); determinants of DFI; long term elasticities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-03-25
Note: Received: 30 April 1997
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