Foreign Direct Investment, Brand Value, and Economic Performance: A Multinational Analysis

Year 2024, Volume: 74 Issue: 2, 529 - 549, 31.12.2024

Tuba Yıldız , Ünal Arslan , N.zeynep Ökten , Yıldız Sağlam Çeliköz , Hale Kırmızıoğlu

https://doi.org/10.26650/ISTJECON2024-1523470

Abstract

The visibility and dependability of multinational corporations’ products increase with the fact that they introduce their goods to markets in other nations through foreign direct investments. The method for presenting products to international markets through foreign direct investments reveals the product’s reputation and therefore the brand’s development value. This study examines the relationship between foreign direct investments and brand value in Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Spain, the USA, and the UK for the period 2007-2023. The majority of studies in the literature attempt to explain the impact of brand value on foreign direct investments. However, very few studies explain the impac foreign direct investments on brand value and 1st generation unit root tests were generally used. Unlike existing studies, In this study, the second-generation unit root test, Durbin-Hausman cointegration, and Common Correlated Effects Mean Group estimation methods were used. As a result, it is anticipated that this study will contribute to the literature in this regard. The findings show that increases in foreign direct investments boost brand value.

JEL Classification : D02 , F21 , C23

Keywords

Brand value, Foreign direct investments, Panel data analysis

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