Determinants of Exports and Foreign Direct Investment in a Small Open Economy

• Main Author: Helga Kristjánsdóttir 1969-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Doktorsritgerðir; Reiknilíkön; Efnahagsmál; Alþjóðaviðskipti; Útflutningur; Fjárfestingar; Lönd; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23133

I find some reasons to prefer the gravity model when estimating foreign direct investment, I also find support for the intuition behind the Knowledge-Capital model, i.e. that endowments matter. In particular, I find that, rather than merely using knowledge endowment proxies, employing proxies for en...