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Does Post‐ante Investment Experience Matter? Lessons from FDI in China

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  • Linda Fung‐Yee Ng
  • Chyau Tuan

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Ample efforts of FDI literature have researched on the motives and determinants of FDI flows based on ex‐ante conditions. Little has been studied with regard to the effects of post‐ante behaviour in determining future investment decisions. Post‐ante experience of FDI decisions with regard to foreign investors’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction and future profit expectations on recurrent decisions are critical. This paper, thus, attempts to investigate FDI in the context of an emerging market environment with emphasis on how environmental and institutional factors and the micro‐firm effects of how investors’ post‐ante views on profits expectations and investment experience would affect MNCs’ decisions on recurrent investment and firm relocation. Empirical results show that decisions in the short and long run were affected differently by the factors under study. Specifically, the short‐run decisions were more affected by profit expectations while the long run by post‐ante experience on investment satisfaction/dissatisfaction and environmental and institutional determinants.

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  • Linda Fung‐Yee Ng & Chyau Tuan, 2004. "Does Post‐ante Investment Experience Matter? Lessons from FDI in China," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(10), pages 1631-1657, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:worlde:v:27:y:2004:i:10:p:1631-1657
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2004.00670.x
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