Foreign direct investment : an analysis of its determinants and policies / Investimento direto estrangeiro : reflexões sobre politicas de apoio e seus determinantes

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2008

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This thesis analyzes the flow of foreign direct investments (FDI), which reached its peak in the last decade of the 20th Century. First to be analyzed are the policies to attract such investments, looking to evaluate to which degree the recent revision of these policies contributed to the expansion of the FDI during this period. Revision that intends to decrease barriers to capital flows and to legally protect the actives of the transnational companies that engaged in these investments. Secondly, were analyzed the FDI flows since the 70?s, emphasizing in the 1990 decade, through descriptive statistics and econometric tests, that aim to identify the determinants of the FDI flows. The tests were made for a group of countries and for both countries and sectors in separated equations. The results obtained re-stated the massive importance of structural and geographical factors, such as market size and distance between export and host countries, to attract the FDI. The magnitude of the determinants also changes as the analysis is applied to individual countries and sectors. As a result, it was possible to investigate the thesis that FDI?s general attraction policies have marginal importance in the real capacity to attract investments to host countries. The size and dynamics of the host market have a role that cannot be enhanced by any isolated attraction policy, mainly those associated to concessions in international investment agreements. Yet, selective policies, chosen case by case and drawn to attract capital to a country or a specific sector can be more effective, especially if they were part of a wider group of integrated actions to stimulate the competitiveness among host countries. Even more liberal policies to attract FDI would be less efficient than pursue integrated growth and industrial development policies, which, therefore, could structurally enhance their attractiveness to foreign direct investments

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investimento estrangeiro foreign direct investment

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