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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis
Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there...
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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem?
Holzmann, Robert - 2000
Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781581
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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Geopolitical risk and cross-border portfolio flows : effects and Channels
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ali, Faek Menla - 2024
This paper analyses the short- and long-term effects of geopolitical uncertainty on cross-border portfolio flows between the US and 41 developed and emerging economies over the period January 1992-November 2022. We find that geopolitical uncertainty decreases equity inflows from other countries...
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What are the relevant dimensions of distance for direct investments from emerging countries? : The role of home and host country contexts
Kandogan, Yener - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 60, pp. 9015-9030
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and internationalization
Wang, Hao; Han, Yonghui; Fidrmuc, Jan; Wei, Dongming - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Center for …; … - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations
Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020
We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …
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