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IMPACT OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE INVESTMENT ON SELECTED LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIES

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Date Issued:
1982
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This thesis analyzes the impact of transnational corporate investment patterns in five Latin American economies: Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, and Brazil. Two important theories attributed to the dependencia and neoconventional schools of thought are first described and then econometrically tested for the above countries. The basic framework for econometrically testing these theories consists of a model specifying the domestic and foreign determinants of domestic capital formation. Domestic determinants are formulated in terms of the 'accelerator' and loanable-funds theories of domestic investment behavior. Investment by multinational corporations is then added to the model to see if it makes any significant contribution towards indigenous investment. In order to take into account the lagged effects of multinational investment, an Almon lag estimation technique was adopted.
Title: THE IMPACT OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE INVESTMENT ON SELECTED LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIES.
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Name(s): DITTRICH, ELIZABETH DIANN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Manage, Neela D., Thesis advisor
College of Business
Department of Economics
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 96 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis analyzes the impact of transnational corporate investment patterns in five Latin American economies: Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, and Brazil. Two important theories attributed to the dependencia and neoconventional schools of thought are first described and then econometrically tested for the above countries. The basic framework for econometrically testing these theories consists of a model specifying the domestic and foreign determinants of domestic capital formation. Domestic determinants are formulated in terms of the 'accelerator' and loanable-funds theories of domestic investment behavior. Investment by multinational corporations is then added to the model to see if it makes any significant contribution towards indigenous investment. In order to take into account the lagged effects of multinational investment, an Almon lag estimation technique was adopted.
Identifier: 14131 (digitool), FADT14131 (IID), fau:10945 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Business
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.
Subject(s): Investments, Foreign--Latin America
Investments, Foreign--Developing countries
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