Federalism and Foreign Direct Investment: How Political Affiliation Determines the Spatial Distribution of FDI – Evidence from India

Chanchal Sharma ()

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Abstract: This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India’s states with the literature on federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI in- flows in a parliamentary federal system. More specifically, it studies subnational govern- ments’ international engagements to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and investi- gates whether the political affiliations of states’ chief ministers and parliamentarians de- termine the spatial distribution of FDI across the Indian states, correcting for the influence of per capita income, population density, urbanisation, infrastructure, policy regime, and human development. [GIGA Working papers 307/2016].

Keywords: foreign direct investment; foreign policy; India; intergovernmental relations; economic growth; per capita income; population density; urbanisation; infrastructure; policy regime; federalism; time-series; Political Affiliation; economic sovereignty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01
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