FDI, natural resource and economic growth: A Threshold model approach

In this article, we present analyses of the link between natural resources, FDI, and economic growth. We use the Fixed Effect Threshold Model for panel data with annual frequency for 83 countries. Our results show that FDI has a strong positive impact on the economic growth of the host country if the host country’s natural resources export is below the statistically significant estimated threshold. However, this FDI-induced economic growth is watered-down if the countries natural resources export is larger than the estimated threshold. The results are robust for alternative indicators of natural resources, i.e., natural resources rents

Natural resources and economic growth: evidence from the resource-rich region

This research paper investigates the impact of natural resources’ volatility on economic growth. The paper focused on three resources rich economies namely; UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. Using data from 1970 to 2016 and employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration approach developed by Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001), we found that both natural resources and their volatility matters from the growth perspective. The study found strong evidence in favor of a positive and statistically significant relationship between the natural resource and economic growth for the economy of UAE and Saudi Arabia. Similarly, for the economy of Oman, a positive but insignificant relationship is observed between natural resources and economic growth. However, we found that the volatility of natural resources has a statistically significant negative impact on the economic growth of all three economies. This study contradicts the traditional concept of resources curse and provides evidence of resources curse in the form of a negative impact of volatility on economic growth

Natural resources and economic growth: evidence from the resource-rich region

This research paper investigates the impact of natural resources’ volatility on economic growth. The paper focused on three resources rich economies namely; UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. Using data from 1970 to 2016 and employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration approach developed by Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001), we found that both natural resources and their volatility matters from the growth perspective. The study found strong evidence in favor of a positive and statistically significant relationship between the natural resource and economic growth for the economy of UAE and Saudi Arabia. Similarly, for the economy of Oman, a positive but insignificant relationship is observed between natural resources and economic growth. However, we found that the volatility of natural resources has a statistically significant negative impact on the economic growth of all three economies. This study contradicts the traditional concept of resources curse and provides evidence of resources curse in the form of a negative impact of volatility on economic growth

FDI, natural resource and economic growth: A Threshold model approach

In this article, we present analyses of the link between natural resources, FDI, and economic growth. We use the Fixed Effect Threshold Model for panel data with annual frequency for 83 countries. Our results show that FDI has a strong positive impact on the economic growth of the host country if the host country’s natural resources export is below the statistically significant estimated threshold. However, this FDI-induced economic growth is watered-down if the countries natural resources export is larger than the estimated threshold. The results are robust for alternative indicators of natural resources, i.e., natural resources rents

FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Natural Resources

This paper focuses on the relationship between FD inflows, natural resource abundance and economic growth. For a large dataset of 104 countries for the period 1996-2015, the paper applies Arellano and Bond GMM estimation to investigate natural resource curse, the impact of FDI inflow on economic growth growth and more finally the role of natural resource sector on the FDI-growth relationship. The paper found a positive and significant affect of FDI inflows on economic growth of the host country. However, the impact of FDI inflows on economic growth changes with the changes in the size of natural resource sector. The estimated positive impact of FDI inflows on economic growth declines with the expansion in the size of natural resources. Beyond a certain limit, a further expansion in the size of natural resource sector will lead to a negative effect of FDI on economic growth

Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Framework and Economic Growth

The paper explores the role of institutional quality on economic growth and more specifically the role it plays through foreign direct investment. The paper uses an economic performance relevant indicators of institutional quality (both in aggregate and individual indicators) to evaluate its direct impact on economic growth and an indirect impact on economic growth via foreign direct investment. The paper applied instrumental variable model to a larger dataset of 106 countries and found that besides a strong direct positive effect on economic growth the aggregate institutional quality variable as well as all individual variables except for the rule of law have a small but significant indirect impact on economic that takes place through boosting foreign direct investment

Přímé zahraniční investice a ekonomický růst

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth Abstract This dissertation consists of three empirical research papers on FDI inflow and economic growth and the role the host country natural resources abundance and institutional quality play in altering the FDI-growth relationship. The first paper (chapter 2) investigates the FDI-growth relationship and the impact of the host country's natural resource abundance on the FDI-growth relationship. The paper uses a dataset of 117 countries over the period 1991-2016 and use system GMM estimation method and found a positive and significant impact of FDI inflows on the economic growth of the host country. However, FDI-induced growth was found to be more pronounced in the low-and middle-income countries compared to high-income countries. Further, FDI-induced economic growth is slowed down by the increase in the size of the natural resource sector both in the low-and middle-income as well as high- income countries. The direct negative impact of natural resources on growth was found to be stronger in the low-and middle-income countries compared to the high-income countries. Building on the results of the first paper (chapter 3), the second paper estimated a fixed effect threshold for the level of natural resources and found that FDI inflow has a stronger positive impact...Přímé zahraniční investice a ekonomický růst. Abstrakt Tato disertační práce se skládá ze tří empirických výzkumných prací o vztahu mezi PZI, hospodářským růstem, přírodním bohatstvím a institucionální kvality přijímající země. První část výzkumu (kapitola 2) zkoumá vztah mezi PZI a hospodářským růstem a vliv přírodního bohatství na tento vztah. Tato kapitola využívá datový soubor 117 zemí z období 1991-2016 a používá metodu system GMM, která potvrdila kladný a statisticky významný dopad přílivu PZI na hospodářský růst přijímající země. Bylo však zároveň zjištěno, že růst vyvolaný přímými zahraničními investicemi je výraznější v zemích s nízkými a středními příjmy ve srovnání se zeměmi s vysokými příjmy. Hospodářský růst vyvolaný přímými zahraničními investicemi je dále pomalejší u zemí s větším nerostným bohatstvím, a to v zemích s nízkými i středními příjmy i v zemích s vysokými příjmy. Dále byl zjištěn, že přímý negativní dopad velikosti nerostného bohatství na růst je silnější v zemích s nízkými a středními příjmy silnější nežli v zemích s vysokými příjmy. V návaznosti na výsledky první kapitoly (kapitola 3) druhá část výzkumu odhadla vliv na úroveň přírodních zdrojů a zjistila, že příliv přímých zahraničních investic má silnější pozitivní dopad na ekonomický růst přijímajících zemí, pokud vývoz z...Institute of Economic StudiesInstitut ekonomických studiíFakulta sociálních vědFaculty of Social Science

Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Framework and Economic Growth

The paper explores the role of institutional quality on economic growth and more specifically the role it plays through foreign direct investment. The paper uses an economic performance relevant indicators of institutional quality (both in aggregate and individual indicators) to evaluate its direct impact on economic growth and an indirect impact on economic growth via foreign direct investment. The paper applied instrumental variable model to a larger dataset of 106 countries and found that besides a strong direct positive effect on economic growth the aggregate institutional quality variable as well as all individual variables except for the rule of law have a small but significant indirect impact on economic that takes place through boosting foreign direct investment

Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Quality and Economic Growth

Institutional quality is considered to be an important factor in boosting the economic growth of a country. This paper explores the role of institutional quality in economic growth and more specifically the role it plays via the channel of foreign direct investments. This paper uses a larger dataset of 104 countries and applies GMM estimation method to a dynamic panel data to evaluate the direct impact of institutional quality on economic growth and the indirect impact of institutional quality on economic growth through enhancing the FDI-induced economic growth. This paper provides evidence that both FDI inflows and institutional quality cause stronger economic growth. The FDI-led growth, however, was only experienced in the low and middle-income countries. In these countries, better institutional quality was also found to be enhancing the FDI-led economic growth. An important finding of this paper is that in the high-income countries, FDI was found to slow down the economic growth. The results are robust and consistent for individual institutional quality indicators and controlling for endogeneity

FDI, natural resource and economic growth: A Threshold model approach

In this article, we present analyses of the link between natural resources, FDI, and economic growth. We use the Fixed Effect Threshold Model for panel data with annual frequency for 83 countries. Our results show that FDI has a strong positive impact on the economic growth of the host country if the host country’s natural resources export is below the statistically significant estimated threshold. However, this FDI-induced economic growth is watered-down if the countries natural resources export is larger than the estimated threshold. The results are robust for alternative indicators of natural resources, i.e., natural resources rents