Firm Size and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment
Yuko Kinoshita
International Monetary Fund (IMF); University of Michigan, William Davidson Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
December 1998
CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 135
Abstract:
This paper studies the locational determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by Japanese manufacturing firms in seven Asian countries by utilizing the 1993 survey data. I show that different size-groups of firms react to different factors in the host country in making the foreign investment decisions. Low labor cost and sufficient infrastructure encourage small firms to invest in a certain country while, for large firms, market size of the host country and strategic considerations (e.g., whether competitors invested in the country or not) are most important for their locational decisions. Overall, availability of cheap labor is not necessarily an important factor for Japanese FDI in Asia.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 25
JEL Classification: F23, L60, O53
working papers series
Suggested Citation
Kinoshita, Yuko, Firm Size and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (December 1998). CERGE-EI Working Paper No. 135. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=154611 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.154611
