Determinants of FDI inflow in Asia / Anita Hasli, Catherine S F Ho and Nurhani Aba Ibrahim.

The research analyses the determinants of FDI inflow in Asia for the period 1993-2013 and is based on the fixed effect model. The macroeconomic factors included are lending rate, GDP per capita, trade openness, debt, exchange rate, money supply and unemployment rate. The country specific factors included are adult literacy rate, gross fixed capital formation, domestic credit provided by the financial sector, environmental pollution and natural resources rents. The study applies panel unit root tests, panel cointegration analysis and panel regression analysis based on the fixed effect model to ascertain the significance of macroeconomic and country specific factors on FDI inflow in Asia. The study found that lending rate, trade openness and money supply have a positive significance to FDI per capita whereas debt, unemployment rate and environmental pollution have a negative significance to FDI per capita

The Effect of Financial Crisis and Macroeconomic Factors on FDI in Developing Countries

Developing countries needs FDI to be at par with the progress of developed countries. The dearth of study on the effects of financial crisis on FDI justifies the objective which is to examine the potential effect of financial crisis inclusive of macroeconomic factors as control variables on FDI in dataset 23 developing countries for the period 1993-2013. This study includes descriptive analysis, correlation test, stationary test and regression analysis. The random effects generalized least square (GLS) estimator is used in the regression to examine the potential effect of financial crisis and macroeconomic factors on the inflow of FDI. Foremost, the US financial crisis has a positive significance to the inflow of FDI which validates Krugman's theory on fire-sale FDI. However, country specific economic recession, lending rates and natural resources discourage inflow of FDI. Nonetheless, trade openness, domestic currency, money supply and domestic fixed investment encourage FDI in developing countries. Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; financial crisis; REM; developing countries JEL Classifications: C33; F21; G01; P5

Accounts receivable management among small and medium manufacturing firms in Kuching Sarawak

The primary objective of the empirical study is to ascertain the explanatory variables for the collection of debts from accounts receivables among the small and medium size manufacturing firms in Kuching Division, Sarawak. The identification of significant variables and the relative importance of each predictor on the collection of debts from accounts receivables are dealt with by using Multiple Linear Regression Model. Therefore a set of cross sectional data for the year 1999 with a total of 65 observations was used as a sample data. Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics were carried out towards the dependent and independent variables in the data analysis. The finding revealed that there were methods and techniques that exist on collection of debts from accounts receivables among the small and medium manufacturing firms in Kuching Sarawak. Among the determinants, partial payments provide the most significants impact on the collection of debts from accounts receivables. The results indicate that there do exist a variable that explains the collection of debts among small and medium size manufacturing firms in Kuching Sarawak