Bilateral foreign direct investment in forest industry between the U.S. and Canada

Rao V Nagubadi; Daowei Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.03.002

Bilateral foreign direct investment in forest industry between the U.S. and Canada

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Authors:

Rao V Nagubadi, Daowei Zhang

Year:

2011

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Southern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2011.03.002

Source:

Forest policy and Economics 13(5):338-344

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Abstract

In this study we examine the trends and various factors influencing bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) in the U.S. and Canadian forest industry between 1989 and 2008. Using panel data analysis methods, we find that bilateral FDI is positively influenced by depreciation of host country's real exchange rates and exchange rate volatility, and home country's forest product imports and exports and round wood production, and negatively by home country's GDP, current outward FDI position in the rest of the world, and current domestic capital expenditure has no effect on the FDI in the forest industry. These results imply that both imports and exports are complementary to outward FDI and that bilateral FDI is a substitute of FDI to the rest of the word.

Keywords

Foreign direct investment, forest products trade, real exchange rate, exchange rate volatility, domestic capital expenditure

Citation

Nagubadi, Rao V; Zhang, Daowei. 2011. Bilateral foreign direct investment in forest industry between the U.S. and Canada. Forest policy and Economics 13(5):338-344.