Foreign direct investment and democracy : a robust fixed effects approach to a complex relationship

Desbordes, Rodolphe and Verardi, Vincenzo (2017) Foreign direct investment and democracy : a robust fixed effects approach to a complex relationship. Pacific Economic Review, 22 (1). pp. 43-82. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12204)

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Abstract

We develop a new robust-to-outliers dummy estimator that we subsequently apply to investigate the impact of various democratic attributes on foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years. We find that democracy has generally a positive impact on FDI, once outliers are controlled for, but that this relationship is very specific to each host country’s characteristics.

ORCID iDs

Desbordes, Rodolphe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-5401 and Verardi, Vincenzo;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:56167
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    22 February 2017
    Published
    18 August 2015
    Accepted
    Keywords:foreign direct investment, democracy, S-estimator, categorical variables, Stahel-Donoho estimate, Commerce, Development, Aerospace Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Commerce
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:15 Apr 2016 09:37
    Last modified:28 May 2023 01:29
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56167
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