Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become increasingly important for theBrazilian economy: the ratio of FDI inow to the country's gross domestic product(GDP) increased from a 0.6% average in the 1980s to 2.5% from 2001 to 2010,according to data from UNCTAD. However, there is great inequality...

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Autores principales: Maurício Mesquita Bortoluzzo, Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai, Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:0b3b4fa017df4bfb8f6b4712ea72e47a2021-11-24T16:04:06ZAllocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states0101-41611980-5357https://doaj.org/article/0b3b4fa017df4bfb8f6b4712ea72e47a2013-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/ee/article/view/49053https://doaj.org/toc/0101-4161https://doaj.org/toc/1980-5357 Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become increasingly important for theBrazilian economy: the ratio of FDI inow to the country's gross domestic product(GDP) increased from a 0.6% average in the 1980s to 2.5% from 2001 to 2010,according to data from UNCTAD. However, there is great inequality in the distributionof this investment among Brazilian federation units. This study aims atinvestigating the determining factors for the location of foreign direct investmentacross Brazilian states, based on an econometric study with panel data for the years1995, 2000 and 2005. The results showed that foreign investment responded positivelyto consumer market size, quality of labor and transport infrastructure, butnegatively to cost of labor and tax burden. Maurício Mesquita BortoluzzoSergio Naruhiko SakuraiAdriana Bruscato BortoluzzoUniversidade de São PauloarticleForeign direct investmentPanel dataBrazilian statesEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENPTEstudos Econômicos, Vol 43, Iss 2 (2013)
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PT
topic Foreign direct investment
Panel data
Brazilian states
Economics as a science
HB71-74
spellingShingle Foreign direct investment
Panel data
Brazilian states
Economics as a science
HB71-74
Maurício Mesquita Bortoluzzo
Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai
Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo
Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
description Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become increasingly important for theBrazilian economy: the ratio of FDI inow to the country's gross domestic product(GDP) increased from a 0.6% average in the 1980s to 2.5% from 2001 to 2010,according to data from UNCTAD. However, there is great inequality in the distributionof this investment among Brazilian federation units. This study aims atinvestigating the determining factors for the location of foreign direct investmentacross Brazilian states, based on an econometric study with panel data for the years1995, 2000 and 2005. The results showed that foreign investment responded positivelyto consumer market size, quality of labor and transport infrastructure, butnegatively to cost of labor and tax burden.
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author Maurício Mesquita Bortoluzzo
Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai
Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo
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Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo
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title Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
title_short Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
title_full Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
title_fullStr Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
title_full_unstemmed Allocation of foreign direct investment across Brazilian states
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publisher Universidade de São Paulo
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