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Economic Institutions and the Outward FDI Location Strategies of Emerging Market Multinational Business Groups: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries

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  • Sohaib Shahzad Hassan

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Using an extensive data set on the Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) projects from Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), this study empirically examines the impacts of host country economic institutions, including property rights protection, corruption, taxation, business operating regulations and economic stability, on firms' location decisions in the European Union (EU), while controlling for other conventional determinants of location choice. From a data set of 24,726 location decisions of 951 firms for a time period from 1995 to 2010, the robust empirical evidence suggests that a corruption-free country with a lower tax burden and friendly business regulations positively influence the OFDI location choice strategies of CEEC multinationals. However, these factors vary depending on whether the host country has an advanced economy (EU15: original member countries of the EU), or an emerging economy (CEEC). The effects of economic institutions are more profound on the location activities in the advanced economies of the EU than in other CEEC. Furthermore, CEEC investors generally prefer to be located in countries that have better institutions than their home countries.

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  • Sohaib Shahzad Hassan, 2015. "Economic Institutions and the Outward FDI Location Strategies of Emerging Market Multinational Business Groups: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries," Review of Economics and Institutions, Università di Perugia, vol. 6(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:pia:review:v:6:y:2015:i:1:n:6
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    1. Sadia IMTIAZ & Malik Fahim BASHIR, 2017. "Economic freedom and foreign direct investment in South Asian countries," Theoretical and Applied Economics, Asociatia Generala a Economistilor din Romania - AGER, vol. 0(2(611), S), pages 277-290, Summer.
    2. Brinda Sooreea-Bheemul & Uzma Shataz Rasool & Rajeev Sooreea, 2020. "Does Economic Freedom Matter to Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa?," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 10(3), pages 195-207.
    3. Ahmed, Mohamed Abdelhameed & Faisal, Eid Naaimy, 2020. "Determinants Of Egyptian Arab Inter-Investments: Gravity Model Evidence," Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi, vol. 3(1), pages 161-178.
    4. Grzegorz Tchorek, 2016. "Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Development Path. The Case of Visegrad Countries (Bezposrednie Inwestycje Zagraniczne a Inwestycyjna Sciezka Rozwoju. Przypadek krajow grupy Wyszehradzkiej)," Research Reports, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 2(22), pages 201-212.

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    Keywords

    outward FDI; conditional-logit; location choice; emerging economy multinational business groups; economic institutions; CEECs.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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