Standard foreign direct investment (FDI) theory suggests that falling trade costs should discourage horizontal FDI. Most FDI is horizontal. Yet, the world witnessed an FDI boom in 1990s, a period of striking falls in tra ...
This dissertation is composed of two self-contained essays, which examine two
different factors that could affect human capital accumulation in a developing country.
Both essays utilize cross-sectional data from the se ...
This research studies the effect of corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in
various industries. We use industry level data of US Investments abroad in 60 host
countries from 1990 to 2002. We explore the questi ...
