Does it Make a Difference? Comparing Growth Effects of European and North American FDI in Latin America

Gabriele Tondl () and Patricia Prufer ()

No 26, Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 from Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics

Abstract: FDI from the European Union (EU) ranks before FDI from North America (NA) in some of the Latin American countries. We investigate the impact of EU- versus NA-FDI on the growth rate including about 50 controls. Country specific effects and parameter heterogeneity are incorporated in our estimation. We use Bayesian Model Averaging to address model uncertainty and to select the best models and most robust parameters. Our results indicate that positive effects of FDI are dependent on the functioning of legal frameworks and the quality of infrastructure. EU-FDI is an important, robust growth determinant whereas NA-FDI is not.

Keywords: Growth determinants; FDI; model uncertainty; Bayesian Model Averaging; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 F21 F43 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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