Replication Package for: Threshold Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth: A Cross-Regional Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America

This replication package contains all data, code, and supplementary materials required to reproduce the empirical results reported in "Threshold Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth: A Cross-Regional Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America." The paper applies Hansen's (1999) panel threshold regression (xthreg, Stata) to 115 developing economies across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Asia, and Latin America over 1970–2023 to examine whether FDI's effect on economic growth is nonlinear and regime-dependent. Key findings include region-specific absorptive capacity thresholds (SSA: 0.82% of GDP; Latin America: 1.15%; Asia: 1.27%), a cross-regional sign reversal in below-threshold FDI effects, and within-SSA Anglophone–Francophone heterogeneity linked to CFA franc zone monetary stability. Robustness checks encompass Dynamic Fixed Effects estimation, bootstrap inference, temporal aggregation, IV-FE 2SLS, and System GMM. Contents: Panel dataset (115 economies, 1970–2023), Stata do-files for threshold regression, robustness checks, and heterogeneity analysis, and output tables corresponding to all reported results. Software: Stata 19 (xthreg command; Hansen (1999)) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)