TY - BOOK ID - 84541078 TI - Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America AU - Kinoshita, Yuko. AU - Campos, Nauro. PY - 2008 SN - 1462338658 1452715793 1283511258 9786613823700 1451913419 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Exports and Imports KW - Finance: General KW - Macroeconomics KW - International Investment KW - Long-term Capital Movements KW - Institutions and the Macroeconomy KW - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions KW - Privatization KW - Contracting Out KW - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy KW - Trade Policy KW - International Trade Organizations KW - Finance KW - International economics KW - Foreign direct investment KW - Structural reforms KW - Financial sector development KW - Trade liberalization KW - Financial services industry KW - Commercial policy KW - Russian Federation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84541078 AB - This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main finding is a strong empirical relationship from reforms to FDI, in particular, from financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. ER -