Determinantes do investimento direto externo para economias em desenvolvimento e em transição, 1996-2011 : existem diferenças para a América Latina e Caribe?

Abstract

This dissertation has as main objective to test empirically what are the main determinants of foreign direct investment flows (FDI) for developing economies and in transition and whether for the region of Latin America and Caribbean, those same determinants remains or not. To support the empirical part of the job, chapter two, which is divided into two sections, started showing the evolution theory of the main approaches about the FDI including the Theory of Industrial Organization of Hymer (1976), the Theory of Internalization of Buckley and Casson (1976), the Product Cycle Theory of Vernon (1966), the Eclectic Theory of Dunning (1988, 1993 and 2000) and the New Trade Theory. And in the second section of the chapter, we reviewed a total of twenty articles with emphasis on empirical determinants of FDI flows to developing countries and in transition and for the countries of Latin America and Caribbean. In the third chapter will appear the evolution of the global FDI flows with two separate analyses: one for developing countries and in transition and one for the countries of Latin America and Caribbean. In the fourth chapter, using a methodology of panel data, regressions were estimated for a wide sample of 118 countries being 27 of Latin America and Caribbean for the period 1996-2011. The results show that there are differences in factors that determine inflows of FDI. Giving evidence that while in developing countries and in transition the main determinants are the search for markets (Market-seeking), and search for efficiency (Efficiency-seeking). The economies of Latin America and Caribbean prevails just search for markets (Market-seeking).