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REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 195-227Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/roie.12495
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- Yonsei University [2020-22-0328]
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The study shows that domestic policy uncertainty in host countries significantly reduces foreign direct investment inflows, especially in countries with less financial development.
While foreign direct investment (FDI) is known to be the most stable type of international capital flows, it may be particularly susceptible to heightened uncertainty because of its high fixed costs. We investigate the effect of domestic policy uncertainty on FDI inflows into 16 host countries using the OECD bilateral FDI panel data set and the economic policy uncertainty index from 1985 to 2013. The bilateral structure of the data enables us to disentangle pull factors of FDI from its push factors, thereby obtaining a cleaner causal identification of the higher domestic policy uncertainty effect. To alleviate remaining endogeneity concerns, we use the timing of exogenous elections as an instrument. We find that domestic policy uncertainty in a host country robustly reduces the FDI inflows, with the effect being larger in countries with less financial development.
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