149 Identifying FDI Types : Watch What They Do, Not What They Say or Look Like
- JaeBin Ahn, Jee-Hyeong Park
- sier_149.pdf
Abstract
This note compares three different schemes to identify FDI types and documents that correlation among different classification schemes is extremely low. Empirical exercises in line with the proximity-concentration tradeoff hypothesis support the sales information based scheme.
Keywords: FDI types; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Sales Information based Scheme; Industry Information based Scheme