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Internal Absorption and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: A new approach towards Market Size

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  • Mushtaq AHMAD
  • Ferhan K. AHMAD
  • Muhammad Ali NASIR
  • Gulzar KHAN

    (CIIT, WahCantt, Pakistan.)

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In continuation of the efforts to understand the dynamics of internal market, this study proposes Internal Absorption as an instrument for measuring market size for economies which confront large trade deficit over a longer period of time. The study empirically examines the impacts of Internal Absorption along with trade openness and gross private investment on FDI inflows in Pakistan. The ARDL approach to co-integration and ECM based on ARDL is used to test the existence of long run relationships among variables for the period 1976-2009. The result establishes strong positive relationship between Internal Absorption and FDI inflows in short as well as in the long run.

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  • Mushtaq AHMAD & Ferhan K. AHMAD & Muhammad Ali NASIR & Gulzar KHAN, 2015. "Internal Absorption and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: A new approach towards Market Size," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, EconSciences Journals, vol. 2(3), pages 400-410, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cvv:journ1:v:2:y:2015:i:3:p:400-410
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    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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