Locational determinants of the US direct foreign investment in food and kindred products

Yulin Ning and Michael Reed
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Yulin Ning: Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky, Postal: Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky

Agribusiness, 1995, vol. 11, issue 1, 77-85

Abstract: This article investigates locational determinants of US direct foreign investment (DFI) in food and kindred products by using data from six industrialized countries from 1983 to 1989. Separate equations were fitted to explain DFI position, outflow, and reinvestment. Cultural linkages, trading blocs, host market size, tax considerations, exchange differentials, and host market growth rates are found to be significant determinants of DFI in food manufacturing. Wage rate differentials were found to be important in the position and reinvested equations, but not in the outflow equation. Thus, cheap labor may not be as important in attracting DFI as in the past. © 1995 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(199501/02)11:1<77::AID-AGR2720110108>3.0.CO;2-0

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