eprintid: 1493132 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/49/31/32 datestamp: 2016-05-23 10:08:34 lastmod: 2020-02-12 19:38:20 status_changed: 2016-05-23 10:08:34 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Yerrabati, S creators_name: Hawkes, D title: Institutions and Investment in the South and East Asia and Pacific Region: Evidence from Meta-Analysis ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J77 keywords: FDI; governance; meta-regression analysis; systematic literature review; South and East Asia and Pacific countries note: Copyright © Author(s) 2016. Licensed under the Creative Commons License - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: The ability of any country to attract inward FDI is considered to depend on the quality of the economic governance found within that state. This study seeks to explore the value of quality economic governance in attracting FDI in South and East Asia by meta-synthesising 771 estimates from 48 empirical studies published between 1980 and 2012. The authors find evidence that countries with good quality regulation and low levels of corruption are able to attract more FDI. They also find that countries with stronger legal systems are rewarded with higher levels of inward FDI. The results of the meta-regression suggest that investing in quality economic governance is rewarded in the global economy through high levels of inward FDI. date: 2016-05-23 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-11 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1130904 doi: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-11 lyricists_name: Hawkes, Denise lyricists_id: DDHAW85 actors_name: Hawkes, Denise actors_id: DDHAW85 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Economics volume: 10 article_number: 2016-11 citation: Yerrabati, S; Hawkes, D; (2016) Institutions and Investment in the South and East Asia and Pacific Region: Evidence from Meta-Analysis. Economics , 10 , Article 2016-11. 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-11 <https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-11>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1493132/1/Hawkes_Economics_2016-11.pdf