The results further emphasized that FDI net inflows are affected by tourist receipts of the previous year. Furthermore, causality testing among the variables is unidirectional; meaning only unemployment rate Granger causes FDI net inflows. It insinuates that unemployment should be addressed to the ...
I include covariates to control for potential confounders. I control for economic and institutional features of the host country: its (logged) Gross Domestic Product (GDP), per capita GDP, total trade, and net FDI inflows (both as GDP percentages). I include its Political Constraint (POLCON) ...
In order to reap the benefits of FDI governments of host countries need to implement some policies, such as improvements of the general macroeconomic and institutional frameworks; creation of a regulatory environment that is conducive to FDI inflows; and upgrading of infrastructure, technology and huma...
According to the elasticities of the asymmetric shocks, the positive innovation disclosed a more prominent impact than the negative innovation on the FDI inflows. Thus this study advocated for ensuring a conducive innovation environment by mobilizing economic resources. Finally, the causality test ...
This study used several variables including carbon emissions (CE) measured by carbon dioxide emissions (metric tons per capita), net FDI inflows (current USD), economic growth (EG) measured by GDP per capita (current USD), financial development (FD) measured by domestic credit to the private ...
The focus in this paper is on FDI inflow (fdi), which is measured as percent of GDP or net inflows (current dollars). Following the main results in the empirical studies, a set of potential determinants, 𝑋𝑖𝑡 Xit, are employed: EATR, GDP per capita, short-run and long-run ...