scholarly journals Governance, Real Output and Foreign Direct Investment in Asia: A Panel Data Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-343
Author(s):  
Altaf Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Atif Nawaz ◽  
Ruqayya Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Real Output ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
The Impact

This study intends to analyze the impact of governance (such as political, economic and institutional governance) on real output (GDP) and foreign direct investment (FDI) in 26 Asian countries during 1996 – 2019. Results of panel ARDL show the positive impact of capital, labor and trade openness on GDP and FDI. Institutional governance affects GDP and as well as FDI negatively and validates the notion that corruption greases the wheel of growth but when institutional governance is used with other indicators of governance in the model, it affects the FDI positively. Other dimensions of governance such as political and economic governance have a positive and significant impact on GDP and FDI in all model specifications. The results of the panel causality test that there is bi-directional causality from governance to GDP but evidence of bi-directional causality among governance indicators have also been found. The study emphasized on the policy making to improve the level of governance in Asian countries.

scholarly journals FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, WORKERS’ REMITTANCES AND PRIVATE SAVING IN PAKISTAN: AN ARDL BOUND TESTING APPROACH

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1216-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Ali Raza
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Private Savings ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and workers’ remittances on private savings of Pakistan. This study employs ARDL bound testing co-integration approach, rolling window analysis, Granger causality test, Toda and Yamamoto Modified Wald causality test and variance decomposition test. Results indicate the significant positive impact of FDI and workers’ remittances on private savings in the long and short run. Causality analyses confirm the bidirectional causal relationship of FDI and workers’ remittances with private savings. It is recommended that policy makers should form friendly policies to attract more FDI and workers’ remittances in the country which leads to increase private savings in Pakistan. This leads to increase more fund for financial intermediaries to increase domestic investment opportunities in the country. This paper makes a unique contribution to the literature with reference to Pakistan, being a pioneering attempt to investigate the impact of FDI and workers’ remittances on private savings of Pakistan by using the long annual time series data and applying more rigorous econometric techniques.

scholarly journals The Impact of FDI on Economic Growth in Case of Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Alina Mihaela Ciobanu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Determinants Of Economic Growth

Foreign direct investment flows had increased worldwide over the last decades and many specialists think that there is a strong correlation among trade, FDI, labor force, and economic growth in the receiving countries. Based on available statistical data, we will examine the effects of FDI on GDP growth and the causality relations between GDP, trade openness, labor force, and FDI in case of Romania for the last decades. The ARDL bound testing approach is used to study the existence of a long-run relationship between FDI, trade, labor, and economic growth. Then the error-correction based Granger causality test is used to test the direction of causality between the variables. The results revealed that there is cointegration among the variables when real GDP and foreign direct investment are the dependent variables. Foreign direct investment, trade openness, and labor force are the main determinants of economic growth in the long run in Romania. In addition, the increase of gross domestic product, exports, imports and labor force promote foreign direct investment in the long run.

scholarly journals The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation, Inflation, Money Supply and Trade Openness on Economic Growth of Asian Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Xiuyun Yang ◽  
Muhammad Nouman Shafiq
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Impact

Economic growth is currently an essential phenomenon for emerging countries worldwide and has gained the researchers' intentions. Thus, the current study aims to examine the role of foreign direct investment (FDI), capital formation, inflation, money supply, and trade openness on the economic growth of Asian countries. The data has been extracted from the twenty emerging Asian countries from 2007 to 2018 using the most popular database named World Development Indicators (WDI). The fixed-effects model, along with the robust standard error, has been used for checking the impact of predictors on the economic growth of Asian countries. The results revealed that the predictors such as FDI, capital formation, money supply, and trade openness have positive association with economic growth, while inflation has a negative association with the economic growth of Asian countries. These findings are suitable for the new arrivals who want to examine this area in the future and for the regular traders who want to develop policies related to economic growth.

Foreign direct investment inflows on tax revenues in the transition economies of european union

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakki Odabas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

There have been significant increases in the flows of foreign direct investment inflows in the world together with the globalization process as of 1980s. In this regard, this study examines the impact of foreign direct investment inflows on the tax revenues in the selected transition economies of the European Union including Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Slovenia during the period 1996-2012 by using Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) causality test. We found that there was unidirectional causality from foreign direct investment net inflows to the tax revenues, and also there was unidirectional causality from foreign direct investment net inflows to the economic growth.Keywords: Tax revenues, foreign direct investment inflows, economic growth, panel data analysis

scholarly journals Economic Freedom, Exchange Rates Stability and FDI in South Asia.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4II) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafar Mueen Nasir ◽  
Arshad Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Real Effective Exchange Rate ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Host Countries

This study empirically examines the role of economic freedom, market size and exchange rates in attracting foreign direct investment in south Asian countries for the period 1995-2008 by employing panel data analysis in fixed effect setting. Results clearly indicate the presence of significant positive relationship between economic freedom and FDI inflows in South Asian countries during the period of study. The real effective exchange rate was having negative association with it indicating that depreciation in host country currency negatively influences the inflow of FDI to that country. Therefore, monetary policy should focus on providing stability to currencies of host countries. The model explains approximately 90 percent of total variation in FDI. The paper concludes that South Asian countries should make concerted efforts in devising polices that improve level of economic freedom. In other words, they should provide more investment friendly climate, trade openness, efficient monetary and fiscal policies and freedom from corruption. This can help to attract more foreign direct investment in the South Asian countries.

scholarly journals An Assessment of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Employment: The Case of Ghana’s Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Addo Eric Osei
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
The Impact

The literature is in respect of the fact that foreign direct investment has been a key aspect of the development strategy of most developing countries. The main objective of the study is to examine the extent FDI influence employment creation in the non-mining sector of Ghana for the period 2000 – 2016 using time series (annual) data conducted with the aid of OLS (Multiple Linear Regression) model, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL-ECM) Bounds Testing Approach and Granger-Causality test in the estimation of level relationship / cointegration and causality (respectively) between the study variables (for robustness checks). The result of this study shows that FDI has a statistically significant and a positive impact on employment growth via jobs creation in Ghana. Again, evidence shows that the study variables are cointegrated and have a long run relationship. Further robust test from Granger-causality shows no causal relationship from FDI to employment growth or from employment growth to FDI (at significance level of 5%). In addition, the study identifies factors such as wage structure, investment freedom and subsectors as important indicators influencing employment in the country. Finally, the study recommends policies to help create enabling political and socio-economic environment for FDI thereby creating more sustainable jobs and tackling the current high rates of unemployment in Ghana.

scholarly journals The impact of savings on economic growth in a developing country (the case of Kosovo)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Ribaj ◽  
Fitim Mexhuani
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Cointegration Tests ◽  
Savings Rate ◽  
Augmented Dickey Fuller ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe correlation between savings and economic growth has been the subject of research for some well-known economists. This study provides further insight on such correlation by examining the case of Kosovo from both a qualitative and quantitative research methodology. The data used was from 2010 to 2017 and has been analyzed using the augmented Dickey-Fuller tests, Johansen cointegration tests, and Ganger causality test. The test of the unit root confirms stationarity, and the regression results showed that deposits have a significant positive impact on Kosovo’s economic growth, because savings stimulate investment, production, and employment and consequently generate greater sustainable economic growth. Furthermore, loans and remittances also help boost the economy of Kosovo through their direct impact on investment. This paper confirms that countries whose national savings rate is high are not dependent on foreign direct investment; consequently, the risk arising from volatile foreign direct investment decreases significantly.

THE IMPACT OF TAX CUT ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

INFO ARTHA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Rusman Affandi Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

In this paper, we have examined the impact of tax cut on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Southeast Asian countries as a response to the debatable issue of the relationship between tax cut policy and FDI. We use corruption perception index and government effectiveness as the control variable, as well as other economic and demographic variables such as GDP growth, tax revenue, inflation, unemployment and population growth. Using Fixed Effect Model on panel data for a period of 1997-2016 adopted from World Bank, UNCTAD, and various websites, our findings suggest that in Southeast Asian countries, even though corporate tax cut policy gives a negative effect on FDI, this tax cut policy is not the main factor that induce investors. It is trade openness and GDP growth which become the reasons for investors to invest in this region. Moreover, the effect of government performance has played pivotal role in attracting FDI inflows.

scholarly journals The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Financial Development: New Evidence from Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Abdul Majeed ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Mahmood Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Asif Khan ◽  
Judit Olah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Causality Analysis ◽  
Government Consumption ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
The Impact

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as a prerequisite for gaining and maintaining competitiveness. Simultaneously, the relationship between FDI and financial development (FD) has important implications for the researched economy and its competitiveness. This domain has not been sufficiently investigated, with diverse and contradictory findings evident in the literature. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of FDI on FD for the selected 102 Belt and Road Initiative countries on four continents: Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Based on data from 1990 to 2017, a set of quantitative techniques, including feasible generalized least squares, and augmented mean group techniques, were used in this study. Our findings indicate that FDI, trade openness, government consumption, and inflation have a statistically significant relationship with FD. FDI, trade openness, and government consumption increased FD in Asia, Europe, and Latin America but decreased in Africa. Inflation shows a negative influence on FD in all continents. Furthermore, the Dumitrescu–Harlin panel causality test confirms a two-way causality relationship among FDI, trade openness, and FD in Asia and Europe. In contrast, a unidirectional relationship exists between FDI and FD in Latin America. The income-wise results reveal that low- and middle-income countries attract more FDI than high-income countries due to high factor costs. These empirical results provide new insights for policymakers, presenting several policy implications for FD competitiveness in the reference regions.

Do Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Trade Openness Explain the Disparity in ICT Diffusion between Asia-Pacific and the Islamic Middle Eastern Countries?

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Shirazi ◽  
Roya Gholami ◽  
Dolores Añón Higón
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Development Education ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of FDI and trade openness on ICT diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions from 1996-2005. The results indicate that while dissimilarities exist between the economies included in this study in terms of their level of socio-economic and political development, education and the growth of GDP have had a positive impact on ICT diffusion in both regions. However, while FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on Middle Eastern economies has been detrimental. The results of this study also show that trade-openness has had, in general, a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion.

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