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How do country regulations and business environment impact foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows?

Contractor, Farok J., Dangol, Ramesh, Nuruzzaman, N., Raghunath, S.·2020·International Business Review
DOI 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101640
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How do multinationals choose which countries to invest in? This study addresses the essential question of the impact of regulatory variables in attracting or deterring foreign direct investment (FDI). We separate regulatory variables based on different stages of a firm’s life-cycle. Using World Bank data for 189 economies, we examine which host country regulatory factors influence inward FDI. We find that countries with stronger contract enforcement and more efficient international trade regulations attract more FDI. The interaction terms suggest that multinational companies are willing to trade-off a country's poorer institutional variable in return for another where the institutional variable is stronger. For example, multinationals are willing to invest in countries with less efficient entry and exit regulations in exchange for stronger contract enforcement. These results also have important implications for government policy reform.

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Authors
Contractor, F. J., Dangol, R., Nuruzzaman, N., & Raghunath, S.
Venue
International Business Review
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-04
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
101640
ISSN
0969-5931 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101640
OpenAlex
W2995230056
Cited by
294
References
99
FWCI
38.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
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Contractor, F. J., Dangol, R., Nuruzzaman, N., & Raghunath, S. (2020). How do country regulations and business environment impact foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows? International Business Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101640

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