Contrasting the dynamic patterns of manufacturing and service FDI: Evidence from transition economies

Aleksandra Riedl (aleksandra.riedl@oenb.at)

No 117, Department of Economics Working Paper Series from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Abstract: We contribute to the foreign direct investment (FDI) literature by providing first empirical evidence on the relative importance of location fac- tors for service and manufacturing FDI. This is of particular interest as the global stock of inward FDI in the service sector has become predominant in the last ten years. Based on a sectoral panel of eight new European member states in the period of 1998 to 2004 we perform a dynamic panel analysis al- lowing for individual adjustment periods across sectors. Results support our assumption that investment into the service sector, which is characterized by low installation costs, adjusts much faster to its desired level than manufactur- ing FDI. Furthermore, since services are mostly non-tradable, FDI into this sector is largely based on market-seeking motives while manufacturing FDI is also driven by international price competitiveness measured via real unit labor costs. (author´s abstract)

Keywords: foreign direct investment; service sector; stock adjustment model; transition economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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