FDI, Aid, Terrorism: Conditional Threshold Evidence from Developing Countries

Simplice Asongu, Uchenna Efobi and Ibukun Beecroft

No 15/019, Research Africa Network Working Papers from Research Africa Network (RAN)

Abstract: We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and multilateral aid variables are used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The following findings are established. First, while the effects of multilateral aid are consistently significant with positive threshold evidence, bilateral aid is only positively significant in bottom quantiles. Second, with the slight exception of transnational terrorism in bilateral aid regressions, the impacts of terrorism dynamics are unexpectedly positive, in: (i) bottoms quantiles with domestic terrorism and the 25th quantile with total terrorism, for bilateral aid regressions, and (ii) the 25th quantile with domestic terrorism and bottom quantiles of transnational terrorism, for multilateral aid regressions. Third, interactions between terrorism and foreign aid dynamics unexpectedly yield negative effects in: (i) bilateral aid and domestic terrorism in bottom quantiles and (ii) multilateral aid and domestic (transnational) terrorism in the 25th (bottom) quantile (s). The modifying threshold value of bilateral aid is higher than that of multilateral aid. Fourth, there is positive threshold evidence from GDP growth, infrastructural development and trade openness. Policy implications are discussed.

Keywords: FDI; Foreign aid; Terrorism; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 D74 F23 F35 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2015-05
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