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A note on Australia's inward and outward direct foreign investment *
Author(s) -
Tcha MoonJoong
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1999.tb00732.x
Subject(s) - foreign direct investment , economics , investment (military) , foreign exchange , exchange rate , econometric model , international economics , econometrics , macroeconomics , monetary economics , political science , politics , law
. This research note investigates the determinants of Australia's inward and outward direct foreign investment (DFI) using annual and quarterly data. It is found from pooled annual data for Australia and seven developed countries that DFI has been influenced by labor disputes, current account balances, Australia's real GDP and real exchange rates. The application of an econometric model using quarterly data shows that the long run elasticities of DFI with respect to real exchange rates and labor disputes are significant for selected cases.