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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

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2008
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
1018-5941 | 2227-8885
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Working Paper No. 08/26
9781452715797 | 9781451913415 | 9781452715797 | 9781462338658

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main finding is a strong empirical relationship from reforms to FDI, in particular, from financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases.

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