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We examine the influence of cultural distance on public opinion toward foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Our data set includes survey responses from individuals in 38 countries. The survey data allow us to examine opinions of both “brownfield” and “greenfield” FDI inflows. We consider variation in the influences of the cultural distance between a survey respondent’s country of residence and the sources and destinations of their existing FDI stocks for the full sample of survey respondents and for two separate cohorts that are based on whether the respondents’ countries of residence are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD membership is used here as a proxy for the relative economic development of the survey respondents’ countries of residence.
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This appendix contains a series of tables that detail the results of estimations that are ancillary to the primary results that are presented in the chapter. See the text for a description of the tables and corresponding results.
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White, R. (2017). Public Opinion on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: Variation in the Importance of Cultural Distance by Relative Economic Development. In: Public Opinion on Economic Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58103-3_8
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