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Institutional quality and foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Atsushi Fukumi
  • Shoji Nishijima

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the interaction between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and institutional quality through a panel analysis of 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. We employed a simultaneous equation approach to avoid endogeneity biases and found that FDI could improve the quality of institutions, while better institutions attract more FDI into the region. As a policy implication, our regression results indicate that during the process of reform, the relation between FDI and institutional quality warrants a certain amount of attention.

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  • Atsushi Fukumi & Shoji Nishijima, 2010. "Institutional quality and foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(14), pages 1857-1864.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:42:y:2010:i:14:p:1857-1864
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840701748979
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