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European FDI strategies in Mercosur countries

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

Mercosur countries have witnessed a boom of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows since the early 1990s. However, regional integration, viewed in isolation, was not sufficient for the subregion to regain its attractiveness to FDI. FDI growth in individual Mercosur countries was closely related...

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …

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Determinants of FDI in developing countries : Has globalization changed the rules of the game?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign … its relevance well before globalization became a hotly debated issue. …

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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); … - 2006

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

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Financial market development in host and source countries and its effects on bilateral FDI

Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

We estimate gravity-type models to assess the effects of financial market development in the host and source countries on bilateral FDI stocks. We address potential reverse causality, inter alia by performing instrumental variable estimations and restricting the sample to observations where...

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Democracies cooperate more : even where it threatens to bite?

Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2015

Estimating two-step selection models, we find that more democratic governments are more likely to conclude preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and to agree to stricter investment provisions related to pre-establishment national treatment and investor-state dispute settlement in PTAs. This is...

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A new global index on infrastructure : construction, rankings and applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

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Liberalization and regulation of international capital flows : where the opposites meet

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

reject the view that financial globalization has deprived national policymakers of the means to protect their economies …

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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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