DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Date of Award

December 2017

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Economics

Advisor(s)

Devashish Mitra

Keywords

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), Developed and Developing Countries, Extensive and Intensive Margins of Exports, Financial Vulnerability, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), International Trade

Subject Categories

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

This dissertation aims to explore the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade. The first chapter attempts to explore the linkage between FDI and exports by examining its relationship with over 140 countries from 2001 to 2006. The second chapter investigates the effect of FDI on the product extensive and intensive margins of exports while considering bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as an investment liberalization policy in order to address and reduce the endogeneity concern between FDI and exports in the literature. The third chapter further investigates the effect of BITs on the extensive and intensive margins of exports using a disaggregate dataset of 190 countries and 27 sectors from 1988 to 2006. All three chapters together show that the linkage between FDI and exports varies between developed and developing countries, between extensive and intensive margins of exports as well as across industries with different financial vulnerability.

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