Political Institutions, Extensive Margins, and Intensive Margins in Foreign Direct Investment

• In Event: FDI and Domestic Politics

Brief Overview

The literature on the political economy of FDI has treated the extensive and intensive margins as a single process. In this paper, we show that the political concerns dominate the extensive margin, but not the intensive margins of FDI.

Authors

• ByungKoo Kim, KDI School of Public Policy & Management

• Seungjun Kim, KDI School of Public Policy & Management

• Jong Hee Park, Seoul National University