INVESTIMENTO ESTRANGEIRO DIRETO, LIBERDADE ECONÔMICA E CRESCIMENTO: EVIDÊNCIAS DE PAÍSES DESENVOLVIDOS E EM DESENVOLVIMENTO.

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between FDI, economic freedom and growth for two groups of countries: developed (OECD) and developing (LAC) in the period between 1980 through 2008. To achieve the main results the econometric of dynamic panel data used. The results revealed that the relationship between FDI and economic growth of countries is conditional regarding the level of their economic freedom, this suggests that countries that increase the degree of economic freedom can gain from the presence of multinational firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]