 The Determinants of the Regional Foreign Direct Investment in ChileJohanna D. Robles and Geoffrey Hewings Chapter 11 in Structure and Structural Change in the Chilean Economy, 2006, pp 257-275 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Over the last 30 years, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played an important role in the Chilean economy. In the early 1970s, when the government exercised total control of capital movements, in addition to control of credit and the interest rate, capital inflows were close to zero and even negative. However, in September of 1973, there was an attenuation of the restrictions affecting the amount of profits and dividends of external firms that could be repatriated, in order to encourage and increase foreign investment. This was under a mechanism called Decree Law 600. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chile was facing a financial debt crisis, which was mostly solved through stabilization programs and the program of debt-equity swaps using foreign investors. Although there were many privatizations, by 1990, these companies were not foreign-owned. During the first years of the 1990s decade, FDI mostly concentrated in the mining sector, but it followed an evolutionary process towards investment in the services sector. Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Random Effect Model; Service Sector; Foreign Investment; Public Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23965-4_11 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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