Free Market Institutions and FDI Performance in Emerging Asian Economies

Journal Title: International Journal of Management and Economics - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 52

Abstract

This paper examines long-term developments in the quality and efficiency of free market institutional systems across thirteen emerging economies from South, South-east, and East Asia over the 1995–2014 period. The paper also empirically assesses the impact of free market institutions on a country’s inward foreign direct investment (FDI) performance. We find that the free market institutional framework in most economies is still relatively inefficient, restrictive, and underdeveloped but has, nevertheless, substantially improved during the last twenty-year period. Our empirical results also indicate that a free market institutional system in a host-country is a factor that attracts inward FDI to emerging Asian economies by multinational companies. Consequently, policy makers should focus on further improving the quality of free market institutions.

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Klimis Vogiatzoglou

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  • EP ID EP182275
  • DOI 10.1515/ijme-2016-0026
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How To Cite

Klimis Vogiatzoglou (2016). Free Market Institutions and FDI Performance in Emerging Asian Economies. International Journal of Management and Economics, 0(52), 43-58. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-182275