The Determinates of Foreign Direct Investment in Ho Chi Minh City in Macroeconomics Prospect

• Main Authors: Ho Hoang Lam Vu, 胡黃林羽
• Other Authors: Lin, Ming-Kun
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85216431882949591843

碩士 === 龍華科技大學 === 商學與管理研究所 === 101 === After 1990, Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city have attained a great successful in its economic development. FDI plays important factor, which contributes the achievement of HCM city and Vietnam during the past two decades. However, inward FDI into HCM city has fluctuated significantly in recent years. Therefore, this research focused on the factors of FDI inflow into HCM city during 1993 to 2011. The objective of this thesis is to measure the impact of following factors on inward FDI inflows into HCM city. Firstly, there are macro-elements of nation, such as, interest rates, inflation and exchange rates. Secondly, there are market size factors such as, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), GDP per capita, and population. Next, the factors of industry elements are real estate, and export factors. The data is collected in during the year of 1993 to 2011, comes from the government office statistic of HCM city and Vietnam. In addition, the methodology of this study uses EVIEW software by using OLS, Unit Root Test and t-statistics in order to analysis it’s empirical and regression models. The results showed that inflation and real estate had the most significant positive effects on inward FDI inflows into HCM city. In addition, population has negative impact on FDI. It also found that real estate and FDI inflow have counter impact for each other in HCM city, although most authors argued about that FDI affected real estate.