Modeling Inward Foreign Direct Investment for Jordan and Australia

The book aimed to identify the major determinants of inward foreign direct and indirect investment into Jordan and Australia. A comparative study was undertaken using advance econometric techniques including: (GARCH and ARCH Vector Autoregressive Model Cointegration test Vector Error Correction Model Granger Causality Variance Decomposition and Impulse Response functions) in order to arrive at policy implications that may lead to increased foreign investment into Jordan. Country risk (financial health economic health and political stability) trade openness stock market price and macroeconomic data were analysed from 1996 to 2010.