FDI & Ports

Typically, the project covers all aspects of doing empirical research with real world

data including finding additional literature for your theoretical framework,

constructing a dataset, conducting statistical analyses, and eventually writing the

research report. Note that you start with one main hypothesis, but that you can

come up with several sub-hypotheses.

HYPOTHESES:

Hypothesis 1 : The presence of a port in a region affects positively the number of

inward FDI.

Hypothesis 2 : The size of a port affects positively the number of inward FDI.

Hypothesis 3 : The presence of a port in a region and the presence of good

infrastructure affects positively the number of inward FDI.

Hypothesis 4 : Different types of FDI and if there is a difference between port and

non-port regions. (for example manufacturing fdi versus services fdi, or Resource

seeking vs market seeking etc, )

-All analyses you have to conduct should be carried out in Stata.

-You can either estimate a fixed effects/random effects/Pooled OLS model or count

data model (Poisson, negative binomial, zero-inflated).