Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one of the key factors enhancing economic growth. In this paper, we study the possible determinants of FDI, specifically institutional readiness in terms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the size of informal economy. Twelve OECD countries (sourc...
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| author | Charan Valliappan Periakaruppan Kittiratanapaibool Thanchanok Tan, Darrel Yi Song |
| author2 | Joseph Dennis Alba |
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| description | Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one of the key factors enhancing economic growth. In this paper, we study the possible determinants of FDI, specifically institutional readiness in terms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the size of informal economy. Twelve OECD countries (source) and forty-eight developing countries (host), generating a total of 1603 observations, across the regions of Africa, South America, and Asia are included in the study over the period of 2000 to 2007. Our hypothesis is that strong IPR protection and a small informal economy in the host country will attract greater inward FDI from the source country. The empirical results, however, highlight different factors affecting FDI inflows to the different regions. In particular, IPR protection is significant in Africa, while the size of informal economy matters most in South America. In Asia, the domestic GDP is the most significant. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/626052019-12-10T12:48:14Z Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries Charan Valliappan Periakaruppan Kittiratanapaibool Thanchanok Tan, Darrel Yi Song Joseph Dennis Alba School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one of the key factors enhancing economic growth. In this paper, we study the possible determinants of FDI, specifically institutional readiness in terms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and the size of informal economy. Twelve OECD countries (source) and forty-eight developing countries (host), generating a total of 1603 observations, across the regions of Africa, South America, and Asia are included in the study over the period of 2000 to 2007. Our hypothesis is that strong IPR protection and a small informal economy in the host country will attract greater inward FDI from the source country. The empirical results, however, highlight different factors affecting FDI inflows to the different regions. In particular, IPR protection is significant in Africa, while the size of informal economy matters most in South America. In Asia, the domestic GDP is the most significant. Bachelor of Arts 2015-04-22T06:32:38Z 2015-04-22T06:32:38Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62605 en Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development Charan Valliappan Periakaruppan Kittiratanapaibool Thanchanok Tan, Darrel Yi Song Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title | Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title_full | Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title_fullStr | Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title_short | Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions and FDI into developing countries |
| title_sort | intellectual property rights quality of institutions and fdi into developing countries |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62605 |
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