Tesis ini membahas tentang keunggulan komparatif dan investasi asing langsung sektor industri pengolahan di Indonesia. Investasi asing langsung berperan dalam meningkatkan keunggulan komparatif, karena kehadiran perusahaan multinasional dapat memberikan spillovers teknologi dan pengembangan kapasitas inovatif pada sektor industri dalam negeri, kedua hal inilah yang kemudian diharapkan mampu meningkatkan keunggulan komparatif suatu negara. Nantinya, peningkatan keunggulan komparatif akan mendorong masuknya investasi asing langsung yang baru di masa depan.Metode estimasi Two Stage Pooled Least Square digunakan karena diduga ada hubungan simultan antara keunggulan komparatif dan investasi asing langsung serta terlanggarnya asumsi strict exogeneity. Hasil penelitian membuktikan adanya hubungan simultan antar keduanya.

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This thesis discusses the comparative advantage and foreign direct investment in the Indonesian manufacturing industry. Foreign direct investment plays an important role in improving the comparative advantage as the presence of multinational companies may generate technology spillovers and increase innovative capacity in the industrial sector within the country which subsequently expected to increase the comparative advantage and encourage more foreign direct investment in Indonesia.

The research is conducted by using Two Stage Pooled Least Square estimation method since it is assumed that there is a simultaneous relationship between comparative advantage and foreign direct investment as well as the violation of strict exogeneity assumption. Evidently, the result shows the existence of a simultaneous relationship between the two.