%0 Journal Article %T Modeling and forecasting foreign direct investment into Brazil with ARIMA %A Turolla %A Frederico Ara¨˛jo %A Margarido %A M¨˘rio AntŁżnio %J Economia Global e GestŁżo %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper we have tested the hypothesis that the foreign direct investment (fdi) flows into brazil have a moving average pattern in line with predictions from the theory. we have modeled the fdi series in us dollars using a univariate model, the auto-regressive integrated moving average (arima) model. the results confirmed the hypothesis derived from the theory that, after correcting for detected outliers, there is a moving average pattern in fdi inflows into brazil as there is quite a dynamic series with relatively rapid adjustment towards equilibrium values. the patterns found can be used in univariate modeling to generate forecasts of the future values of the series. we present a forecast for the series and discuss the issue of forecast accuracy using the theil coefficient. %K internalization theory %K foreign direct investment %K arima model %K intervention analysis. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0873-74442011000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en