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Estimating the Impact of Time-Invariant Variables on FDI with Fixed Effects

Davies, Ronald B.; Ionascu, Delia; Kristjánsdóttir, Helga (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2007-05)

This paper applies the panel fixed effects with vector decomposition estimator to three FDI datasets to estimate the impact of time-invariant variables on FDI while including fixed effects. We find that the omission of ...
Fixed Costs, Foreign Direct Investment, and Gravity with Zeros

Davies, Ronald B.; Kristjánsdóttir, Helga (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2006-06)

Fixed costs play a crucial role in current models of foreign direct investment (FDI), yet they are almost entirely ignored in empirical treatments of FDI. We fill this gap by using a 1989-2001 panel of FDI flows into ...