Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case Of Emerging Markets

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows and their determinants in 68 Emerging Markets between1984-2011. This paper uses a panel cointegration technique of Pedroni (1999, 2004) and Westerlund and Edgerton (2008) considering both structural breaks and cross-sectional dependence. Cointegration results indicate that there exists a positive long-run relationship between economic growth, openness and FDI and a negative long-run relationship between inflation, real effective exchange rate and FDI.