Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development

Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development
Author: Hankook Kim
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Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008
Genre: Economics
ISBN: 9780494447185

In this thesis, I study foreign direct investment (FDI) from the developed North into the developing South. In the first two chapters, I study the role of firm-level heterogeneity in determining the flow of FDI. In the last chapter, I study how corruption affects FDI in the presence of varying transaction costs of dealing with corruption.