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This study obtains the data of foreign direct investment in various manufacturing sectors for the period from 1991 to 1996 in Taiwan, and investigates the impact of government''s policies or non-government''s policies (such as the trend of market or global competition) in determining the inward foreign direct investment (inward FDI). Six factors which affect the determination of industries in the inward FDI consist of jumping trade barriers, industrial concentration, market size, labor quality, investment inntive, and export-oriented. An empirical model is established to study the impacts of those six factors of the inward FDI. An econometric analysis based on the Tobit model is used to assess the influence of those factors in different manufacturing industries involving in the inward FDI. The empirical results indicate that jumping trade barriers, industrial concentration, market size and labor quality represent significant effects in the inward FDI for traditional manufacturing industries in Taiwan. The sults also show that jumping trade barriers, investment incentive, export-oriented, import-competing and industrial concentration are major determinants of the inward FDI in primary manufacturing industries. However, investment incentive, export-oriented, industrial concentration and labor quality are considered as important factors in determining inward FDI in the high-tech industries.
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