2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Does Inward FDI Create Comparative Advantage or is it Attracted to it?
Project/Area Number |
19K01600
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
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Research Institution | Yokohama National University |
Principal Investigator |
Parsons Craig 横浜国立大学, 大学院国際社会科学研究院, 教授 (10334616)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | FDI / greenfield / comparative advantage |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using detailed transactional level FDI data from FT and detailed local data from Vietnam we were able to identify and measure the degree to which FDI inflows have transformed Vietnam to an electronics giant. This is published in the J. A-P B (Taylor and Francis) Our second work resolves an old academic debate between comparative advantage and FDI. This is currently being re-submitted to an international journal for review.
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Free Research Field |
International Economics
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Our first paper's findings are important to understand how countries like Vietnam came move up the technology ladder with respect to production and imports through more FDI.Our second paper's findings have deep policy implications for both high and lower income countries hoping to attract more FDI.
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