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Institutional quality similarity, corruption distance and inward FDI in Turkey
Eren, T. Mesut; Jiménez, Alfredo - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 20 (2015) 1, pp. 88-101
economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …
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Institutional quality similarity, corruption distance and inward FDI in Turkey
Eren, T. Mesut; Jimenez, Alfredo - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 20 (2015) 1, pp. 88-101
economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188584
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Foreign direct investment, corruption and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
Blundell-Wignall, Adrian; Roulet, Caroline - 2017
This paper estimates a dynamic foreign direct investment (FDI) gravity model to explore the impact of corruption in …, probably due to econometric inconsistencies and misuse of data. The more robust findings are that corruption has an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695557
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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs : a structural approach
Lapatinas, Athanasios - 2015
This paper provides an alternative perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4,672 Belgian firms for the period 2003 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290859
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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025384
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Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment : evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises
Thede, Susanna; Karpaty, Patrik - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 1, pp. 348-371
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452450
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The negative effect of regulatory divergence on foreign direct investment
Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2015
The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) are explored with gravity models, using a Poisson estimator and a linear estimator, both with fixed effects. The heterogeneity of product market regulations has a large and robust impact on cross-border investment: a reduction of regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399706
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When multinationals leave : a CGE analysis of the impact of divestments
Gómez-Plana, Antonio G.; Latorre Muñoz, María C. - 2014
Most studies on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) focus on the impact of their expansion through inward or outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, divestments are quite common among the operations of MNEs. In order to derive their effects, we build a computable general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236842
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Business responsibilities and investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2021
Investment treaty policy increasingly interacts with business responsibilities. This scoping paper first surveys the converging approaches to responsible business conduct (RBC) and business and human rights (BHR) as reflected in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630416
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Taxation, Business Environment and FDI Location in OECD Countries
Hajkova, Dana; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Vartia, Laura; Yoo, … - 2006
it focuses on a semi-parametric estimation methodology that accounts for a number of unobserved effects possibly … impinging on the choice of investment location by multinational enterprises. Consistent with previous findings, the estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446630