Table 4

The effect of FDI and its modes of entry on domestic entrepreneurship – the role of host country absorptive capacity

Market capacityHuman capital
FDIGreenfieldM&AFDIGreenfieldM&A
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
FDI0.805***  −3.187**  
 (0.045)  (1.329)  
Greenfield 0.680***  −2.854** 
  (0.066)  (1.304) 
M&A  0.619***  −0.579
   (0.062)  (0.581)
FDI*market capacity0.001     
 (0.003)     
Greenfield*market capacity 0.010*    
  (0.006)    
M&A*market capacity  0.002   
   (0.003)   
FDI*human capital   0.041***  
    (0.014)  
Greenfield*human capital    0.037*** 
     (0.013) 
M&A*human capital     0.012**
      (0.006)
Market capacity−0.030−0.106**−0.042*   
 (0.028)(0.051)(0.025)   
Human capital   −0.245***−0.224***−0.035
    (0.080)(0.080)(0.024)
Openness−0.418***−0.555***−0.0080.1630.0520.234*
 (0.086)(0.108)(0.094)(0.264)(0.268)(0.131)
Labor1.549***2.258***2.946***−0.280−0.2401.444**
 (0.450)(0.462)(0.673)(0.707)(0.649)(0.582)
Exchange−0.001−0.005***2.160***1.745***1.373**2.653***
 (0.001)(0.002)(0.544)(0.655)(0.648)(0.736)
Population growth−0.105***−0.136***−0.082*−0.180***−0.191***−0.182***
 (0.021)(0.024)(0.048)(0.028)(0.028)(0.042)
Government size0.0070.0180.011−0.047**−0.039*−0.016
 (0.010)(0.014)(0.014)(0.023)(0.021)(0.013)
Financial depth0.008***0.008***0.0000.0030.002−0.009***
 (0.002)(0.002)(0.002)(0.002)(0.002)(0.002)
Constant0.7350.6221.65527.856***25.816***8.121***
 (0.709)(0.790)(1.104)(8.585)(8.410)(2.536)
Durbin–Wu–Hausman test0.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.000
Overidentification test0.2940.3040.7070.6770.5610.177
Underidentification test0.0010.0060.0000.0020.0000.113
Observations835775558570546392
R-squared0.5770.5120.2220.2650.2790.112

Note(s): Robust standard errors are in parentheses; *, ** and *** denote significance levels at 10, 5 and 1%, respectively

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