The Effect of China and the Factors Affecting Foreign Direct Investments in Asean Countries

Authors

  • Koy Pei Wen Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Mohamed Hisham Yahya Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Roslinda Rahman Faculty of Economics and Management Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Abdul Razak Abdul Hadi Universiti Kuala Lumpur Business School Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32890/ijms2013.20.1.3

Keywords:

China, ASEAN, WTO, VAR, Foreign direct investment

Abstract

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in bolstering economic growth. It acts as a pillar in supporting the industrialization and economic development of countries. The objectives of this study are to: (a) Recognise factors aff ecting FDI in countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and (b) examine the eff ect of China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on the FDI in ASEAN countries. The Vector Autoregressive method (VAR) was applied to establish the factors that had signifi cant impacts on FDI infl ows over the period 1980–2010 for these countries. Apart from the conventional variables, such as market size, labour cost, interest rates, exchanges rates, corporate tax rates, and degree of openness, this study incorporates another variable, that is, the event of China joining the WTO. This is to determine whether the entry of China into WTO had any impact on FDI in the ASEAN region. The result reveals that, fi rstly, only market size is not a signifi cant factor in determining the FDI infl ows for all the ASEAN countries being studied (i.e. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and, Thailand). Secondly, most of the ASEAN member countries’ FDI are infl uenced by China’s entry into WTO in 2001.
 
Keywords: China, ASEAN, WTO, VAR, Foreign direct investment.

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