Examining the Regional Aspect of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries



Table 6: PcGets Results: Return and Risk Variables (Trade)

All countries

Africa

Asia

Latin America

GDP per capita

-0.001***

[0.0001]

Growth

0.423**

0.419***

1.330***

0.417***

[0.186]

[0.119]

[0.383]

[0.043]

Urban population

0.188***

-0.055***

[0.0669]

[0.003]

Earn

-0.205*

-0.695***

[0.107]

[0.197]

Ores

0.055***

[0.004]

Landarea

0.738***

[0.233]

Roads

-0.014**

[0.007]

Telephone

0.031***

0.026***

[0.011]

[0.002]

Tax rate

-0.009

[0.007]

Trade

0.010

0.033***

0.014***

[0.011]

[0.006]

[0.003]

Inflation

-0.016***

-0.005***

-0.041***

-0.217*

[0.003]

[0.001]

[0.007]

[0.001]

Current account

-0.339***

-0.675***

0.185***

[0.097]

[0.166]

[0.033]

External debt

-2.861**

-1.095***

[1.092]

[0.331]

Change in exchange rate

-0.077**

-0.270***

-0.002***

[0.031]

[0.071]

[0.006]

Variance of the exchange rate

-0.226**

0.805**

0.134***

[0.110]

[0.361]

[0.021]

International reserves

-3.475**

[1.602]

Government expenditure

6.047**

[2.350]

Corruption

-3.181**

-1.728***

[1.395]

[0.263]

Law

3.387***

0.677*

0.759***

[1.241]

[0.344]

[0.237]

Political rights

1.682**

[0.712]

Voice and accountability

7.202***

[1.759]

RSS

^^8!β

∣8

344

“4

Number of observations

100

43

35

22

Adjusted R-squared

0.39____________

0.78

0.64

0.88_________________________

Note: A constant term is included but not reported. Diagnostic tests include residual autocorrelation,
ARCH, heteroscedasticity, functional form mis-specification and non-normality. ***, ** and * indicate
significance on a 1, 5 and 10 percent significance level. Standard errors are in paranthesis.

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