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<p>The main aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the informal economy (IE) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in a sample of petroleum producing countries (Algeria, Norway, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and United States) based on data covering the period of 1991–2018 and using the Non-linear Autoregressive Distribution Lag (NARDL) model. The NARDL model was built separately for each country in the study sample. The main finding of this study is the impact of IE size on FDI inflows in all of the countries in the study sample, even if they are all producing and exporting countries. The empirical results lead to distinguish between two sub-groups. The first sub-group consists of countries whose FDI inflows have been positively affected by positive and negative shocks in the IE. These countries are characterised by a high share of natural resources in their GDP. The second sub-group consists of countries whose inward FDI has been positively affected by negative shocks in the IE and negatively affected by the positive ones. The most common feature of this subgroup is the relative independence of economics from natural resources.</p>
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The main aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the informal economy (IE) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in a sample of petroleum producing countries (Algeria, Norway, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and United States) based on data covering the period of 1991–2018 and using the Non-linear Autoregressive Distribution Lag (NARDL) model. The NARDL model was built separately for each country in the study sample. The main finding of this study is the impact of IE size on FDI inflows in all of the countries in the study sample, even if they are all producing and exporting countries. The empirical results lead to distinguish between two sub-groups. The first sub-group consists of countries whose FDI inflows have been positively affected by positive and negative shocks in the IE. These countries are characterised by a high share of natural resources in their GDP. The second sub-group consists of countries whose inward FDI has been positively affected by negative shocks in the IE and negatively affected by the positive ones. The most common feature of this subgroup is the relative independence of economics from natural resources.

Informal Sector and International Capital Movement: New Evidence from Some Petroleum Countries

Economics and Business

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of the informal economy (IE) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in a sample of petroleum producing...

Informal Sector and International Capital Movement: New Evidence from Some Petroleum Countries

Publié en ligne: 28 mai 2021

Pages: 117 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eb-2021-0008

Mots clés
Informal economy (IE), Foreign direct investment (FDI), Non-linear Autoregressive Distribution Lag (NARDL), International capital movement

© 2021 Ahmed Amine Zeddam et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Informal Sector and International Capital Movement: New Evidence from Some Petroleum Countries

Publié en ligne: 28 mai 2021

Pages: 117 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eb-2021-0008

Mots clésInformal economy (IE), Foreign direct investment (FDI), Non-linear Autoregressive Distribution Lag (NARDL), International capital movement

© 2021 Ahmed Amine Zeddam et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Informal economy (IE), Foreign direct investment (FDI), Non-linear Autoregressive Distribution Lag (NARDL), International capital movement