Endogenous thresholds for the determinants of FDI inflows: evidence from the MENA countries

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dc.authoridTasdemir, Fatma/0000-0001-8706-7942
dc.contributor.authorTasdemir, Fatma
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-23T19:32:07Z
dc.date.available2025-03-23T19:32:07Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentSinop Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPurpose This paper investigates the main drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows for a balanced panel of 11 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies over the 1995-2017 annual period. The author postulates that the impacts of the main pull (growth) and push (global financial conditions, GFC) factors may not be invariant to endogenously estimated thresholds for structural domestic conditions (SDCs) including trade and capital account openness, financial development, human capital (HC) and natural resource endowments. Design/methodology/approach The author investigates whether the main SDC provide endogenous thresholds for the impacts of basic pull and push factors on FDI inflows for the MENA sample by employing panel fixed effects threshold procedure of Hansen (1999). As a robustness check, the author also present the results of the dynamic panel data two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation, which explicitly consider the potential endogeneity of SDC along with main pull factor for the evolution of FDI inflows. Findings Growth, GFC and SDC are important drivers of FDI inflows. The impacts of SDC tend to be higher in countries with higher financial depth, openness to international trade and finance and lower natural resource and HC endowments. The sensitivities of FDI inflows to GFC are substantially higher in the countries which are more open to international trade and capital flows and higher levels of financial depth. FDI inflows are found to be pro-cyclical and this pro-cyclicality tends to be much higher for the episodes exceeding the SDC thresholds. Practical implications Improving SDC including higher openness to international trade and finance and financial development may be effective in encouraging FDI inflows. The findings support an argument that, better SDC are crucially important not only for attracting FDI but also achieving the growth benefits of FDI inflows. Therefore, improving SDC appears to be an important growth-oriented policy agenda for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) including MENA. Originality/value The impacts of the main push and pull factors on FDI (and capital) inflows may be nonlinear. The literature often tackles the nonlinearity issue either by some interaction specifications or imposing exogenous thresholds. The literature, however, is yet to comprehensively investigate whether the main SDC provide endogenous thresholds for the impacts of basic pull and push factors. The author aims to contribute to the literature by estimating endogenous SDC threshold levels for the impacts of the main determinants of FDI flows for MENA.
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/IJOEM-07-2019-0509
dc.identifier.endpage704
dc.identifier.issn1746-8809
dc.identifier.issn1746-8817
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85095409390
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage683
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-07-2019-0509
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11486/5418
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000590907600001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.institutionauthorTasdemir, Fatma
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Emerging Markets
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250323
dc.subjectFDI inflows
dc.subjectMENA economies
dc.subjectGlobal financial conditions
dc.subjectPanel threshold model
dc.subjectStructural domestic conditions
dc.titleEndogenous thresholds for the determinants of FDI inflows: evidence from the MENA countries
dc.typeArticle

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