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Foreign Finance, Investment and Economic Growth

A Special Issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074) belonging to the section "Financial Markets".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 701

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Prof. Dr. E. M. Ekanayake

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College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, USA
Interests: international finance; foreign direct investment; economics and finance; tourism economics; regional integration; international trade; exchange rate volatility
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Dear Colleagues,

International financial and capital flows have become increasingly important for developing countries, given their fragile institutions and financial constraints. Thus, for this Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, we welcome submissions on any topic related to international finance. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality recent research on different problems related to international financial flows and economic growth, including research pertaining to, but not limited to, foreign direct investment, foreign portfolio investment, remittances, foreign aid, and economic growth.

This Special Issue welcomes conceptual papers (around 4000 words), as well as full-length articles on various topics pertaining to international finance. Both empirical and theoretical papers will be considered.

Prof. Dr. E. M. Ekanayake
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • foreign direct investment
  • foreign portfolio investment
  • remittances
  • foreign aid
  • international finance
  • economic growth
  • economic development

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Article
Relative Geopolitical Positioning and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Cross-Border Capital Allocation
by Huy Trung Bui and Huong Giang Mai
J. Risk Financ. Manag. 2026, 19(9), 669; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm19090669 - 2 Sep 2026
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Abstract
Rising geopolitical tensions have made international investment flows increasingly sensitive to differences in risk conditions across countries. This study examines the relationship between geopolitical risk and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for 36 major investing countries over the period 2002–2022. [...] Read more.
Rising geopolitical tensions have made international investment flows increasingly sensitive to differences in risk conditions across countries. This study examines the relationship between geopolitical risk and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows using panel data for 36 major investing countries over the period 2002–2022. Complementing conventional country-specific measures of geopolitical risk, the study adopts a relational perspective by constructing geopolitical risk relative to Vietnam as the common host economy. Fixed-effects models are combined with moderation, geopolitical shock, robustness, and heterogeneity analyses. The results show that higher geopolitical risk in source countries relative to Vietnam is significantly associated with lower bilateral FDI inflows. Political stability significantly moderates this relationship, although the marginal effect of geopolitical risk becomes statistically insignificant at relatively high levels of political stability. The shock analysis further shows that large geopolitical disturbances are associated with lower FDI inflows, while lagged geopolitical risk remains negatively associated with subsequent investment. The main findings remain robust to an alternative ratio-based measure of relative geopolitical risk, the inclusion of exchange-rate conditions, and a dynamic System GMM specification. The negative association between geopolitical risk and FDI is also significantly stronger for developing than for developed source economies. Overall, the findings demonstrate that geopolitical risk, considered in relation to host-country conditions, is relevant to understanding patterns of international capital allocation under heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Full article
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