Optimal Exit Costs of Foreign Direct Investment

This paper examines the optimal policy on exit costs of foreign direct investment for a host country considering the impact of varying income level and host country’s risk aversion against volatile FDI flows. Based on a dynamic model about the impact of the exit costs on FDI inflows and capital formation, we demonstrate that a host country should determine the exit cost considering two counterbalancing factors, that is, facilitating higher FDI inflows and reducing volatility of FDI inflows. When a host country is less vulnerable to volatility with inelastic risk aversion against FDI volatility, it is optimal for the host country with a negative income shock to take a more aggressive approach to induce FDI inflows by lowering exit costs. However, if the host country is more vulnerable to volatility with elastic risk aversion, the host country is advised to take a conservative approach by increasing exit costs to reduce FDI volatility. These findings, supported by the OECD data on 42 countries’ exits costs, implicate that developing countries are recommended to lower exit costs to induce higher FDI inflows when they are not highly vulnerable to volatility shocks.     

人民币汇率改革与外商直接投资的相关性分析

目前国内针对人民币汇率的研究很少涉及汇率与资本流动项目关系的研究,所得的结论大多都认为人民币汇率的贬值有利于我国的外商直接投资。本文探讨了汇率改革及相应的汇率变动在微观层面的影响,并对汇率改革前后外商直接投资变化的原因进行了分析。提出了发挥汇率改革的积极作用,促进外商直接投资健康有序地增长的建议。     

Firm-Specific Characteristics and the Timing of Foreign Direct Investment Projects

This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. We divide each firm’s investment total into a sequence of individual investment decisions and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision. We find that total factor productivity is a significant determinant of a firm’s initial and subsequent investments. Parent-firm size does not have a significant influence on the initial decision to invest. Large firms simply have more investments than smaller firms. Other firm-specific characteristics, such as the R&D intensity, export share and keiretsu membership, also play a role in the investment process. JEL no. F23, L20     

外商来华直接投资与中国企业对外投资的差异分析

中国的引进来和走出去是发展失衡还是渐趋平衡?本文从投资规模、投资产业、投资形式和投资政策四个方面进行了分析。     

跨国公司FDI理论的演进特征及发展趋势

本文在对传统跨国公司FDI理论进行分类与梳理的基础上,深入探讨了20世纪80年代以来跨国公司FDI理论思维取向的演变特征,即优势分析由静态化走向动态化,实践背景从发达国家扩展至发展中国家,基本对象从大型跨国公司转向中小型跨国公司,研究侧重点从动机探究偏向于区位分析。最后归纳总结了FDI理论发展的四大基本趋势。     

外商在华大型项目投资分析

外商大型项目投资在我国利用外商直接投资中占有重要地位,文章考察了改革开放以来外商在华大型项目投资的总体发展态势。从投资来源地、行业构成、项目规模和股权结构等方面对外商大型项目投资的特征及其变化趋势进行分析,在此基础上,对外商在华大型项目投资的质量提供初步的评价。     

Foreign Direct Investment and Trade: A Causality Analysis

In this article, we analyze the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports, using Spanish quarterly data for the period 1977–1998, by means of Granger causality tests in a cointegration framework. Our results point to the existence of a relationship of complementarity between both variables, with Granger causality running in the short run from outward FDI to exports, and bilateral Granger causality in the long run.     

当前我国企业发展境外直接投资的战略思考

随着我国“走出去”战略的实施和发展,近年来我国境外直接投资呈现快速增长态势。2008年由于受全球金融危机的影响,我国境外直接投资流量有所下降,这让我国在迎接机遇的同时也体验了风险和考验,但无论如何都不容我国选择逃避与沉默。面对动荡的国际市场,我国必须以积极的姿态,从容睿智地迎接挑战,谋求更大发展。     

日本对中小企业对外投资的政策支持分析

日本中小企业对外直接投资起步较晚，但发展较为迅速。究其缘由，这与日本政府实行的对外直接投资自由化措施、配套的保险和金融等方面的政策、有效的海外投资促进体系、完善的中小企业对外直接投资服务机构是分不开的。我国中小企业发展面临着与日本中小企业发展相似的投资环境．因此，研究日本对中小企业对外投资的政策支持对指导我国中小企业对外投资政策的制定具有重要的指导意义。     

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows and Intellectual Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Different Income Groups

This study examines the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows by considering global data with three income groups classified by World Bank (i.e. high-, middle-, and low-income groups). The empirical model relates FDI inflows to IPRs, controlled by a set of known variables, namely GDP per capital, trade openness, real exchange rate, and real interest rate. The study covers panel data of between 35 and 100 countries for the period 1980–2014. The panel cointegration tests suggest that FDI inflow and IPRs with the other control variables are cointegrated for full countries and high-income group. Their estimated (long-run) coefficients are 0.04 and 0.18, respectively, but insignificant in the short-run. The impact (short-run) of TRIPS agreement is positive for full countries, but negative for low-income group. Non-causality tests further support the role of IPRs on FDI. Various transmission channels have been identified, in particularly for low-income countries. This study enlightens policymakers about the policy on creating a conducive and sustainable environment for IPRs in order to encourage FDI inflows to their countries.     

Exporting versus Direct Investment under Local Sourcing

This paper examines a setting where foreign direct investment (FDI) shifts demand for an intermediate good from the source to the host country. A domestic and a foreign firm choose between exports or FDI, always sourcing the intermediate locally. We show that by increasing the price of the intermediate, outward FDI can act as a cost-raising strategy for a firm and that attracting FDI can raise host country welfare. Two-way FDI is the equilibrium when the countries have similar market sizes. However, such FDI reduces global welfare relative to two-way exporting since it eliminates indirect competition between suppliers. JEL no. F12, F13, F23, L13     

Foreign Direct Investment and Services Trade: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore

Abstract

Services trade is an important source of growth in Malaysia and Singapore. Both economies are export-oriented and actively court foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic objectives of industrialization and economic development. This paper examines the causal linkages between inward FDI and the country's engagement in services trade in bi-variate and tri-variate VAR frameworks. The empirical findings for Singapore show evidence of bi-directional causality between inward FDI and the total trade volume in services (i.e. the absolute sum of payments and receipts) as well as between FDI and services imports (in the tri-variate specification). This may reflect her relative open foreign investment policy and free trade regime in services. For Malaysia, the evidence of causality is weaker and uni-directional, from inward FDI to services imports. These findings are consistent with the different stages of economic development and openness attained by the two sample countries, and they provide useful background for trade and foreign investment policies and development strategies.     

Research on Spillover Effect of Foreign Direct Investment

The paper figure out there is potential for significant spillover effects from FDI into host countries. The paper summarizes some of the aggregate evidence of technology and productivity spillovers from FDI, and we focus more closely on the effects of FDI on human capital development in the host countries, both through linkages and various kinds of training, Section 4 is the summarization and conclusion of the paper.     

Foreign direct investment, agglomerations, and demonstration effects: An empirical investigation

Previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. The authors distinguish between “efficiency agglomerations” which arise as firms increase their efficiency by locating close to each other, and “demonstration effects” whereby existing firms send signals to new investors as to the reliability and attractiveness of the host country. They try to disentangle these two effects by examining the location of US firms in Ireland. They find that both sources of agglomerations have been important determinants of US firm entry into Ireland. JEL no. F23     

日本吸引外国直接投资的环境分析

近年来，日本政府逐渐认识到了引进外国直接投资的重要性，陆续采取了许多政策和措施促进外国直接投资的引进．随着日本政府的努力和进入的外国直接投资数量的增加，日本的投资环境发生了很大的变化，通过对这些变化的分析，可以客观地评价日本吸引外国直接投资环境的改善和存在的问题，进而发现其发展变化的趋势。     

日本引进外国直接投资与经济结构改革

20世纪90年代中期以后，日本一方面加大了引进外国直接投资的力度，另一方面又开始了新一轮经济结构改革，这两方面存在着密切的联系。随着外国直接投资的大量进入，日本对劳动力市场、企业和金融制度、税收制度等进行了重大的改革。从未来趋势看，引进外国直接投资可能在日本经济结构改革中有更强的促进作用。