IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/kob/dpaper/118.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Japanese Direct Investment in Latin America in the Nineties

Author

Listed:
  • Eduardo Kiyoshi Tonooka

    (Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe Universty, Japan)

Abstract

This paper investigates the determinants of Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Latin America. The analysis considers eleven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) and covers the 1980-1997 period. Empirical findings indicate that market size, bilateral commercial ties, and relative labour costs are important economic factors explaining the Japanese FDI in the region. Additionally, the relevance of institutional factors on FDI decisions is corroborated by some results concerning the legal structure of the investment host countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Eduardo Kiyoshi Tonooka, 2001. "Japanese Direct Investment in Latin America in the Nineties," Discussion Paper Series 118, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
    • Handle: RePEc:kob:dpaper:118
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Foreign Investment; Market; Comparison;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kob:dpaper:118. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Office of Promoting Research Collaboration, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rikobjp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.