Abstract
This article demonstrates that MNC's foreign direct investment decision is linked with institutional quality and hinges on the asset-specificity intensity of FDI. Using a comprehensive global FDI database between 2003 and 2019, our results show that MNCs tend to engage in FDI of high asset-specificity in countries with superior institutional quality, while they launch FDI of low asset-specificity in countries with inferior institutional quality. Moreover, when engaging in FDI of high asset-specificity, MNCs take property rights institutions more seriously, and prefer the sole proprietorship model to the joint venture model there.
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