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A New Global Index of Infrastructure: Construction, Rankings and Applications
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...
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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
recent firm level database. We pay particular attention to the impact of domestic access to finance. Our results show that … engage in own R&D or if they have good access to domestic finance. However, access to finance only plays a role for private … little significance for SOEs and is also independent of their access to finance. By contrast, it is an important channel …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Small Island Developing States
Read, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001326
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Political Regime, Private Investment, and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Udomkerdmongkol, Manop; Morrissey, Oliver - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
This paper uses annual aggregate data for 36 low or middle income countries covering the period 1995-2001 to investigate the effect of FDI on private investment. It also explores if the relationship between FDI and private investment is influenced by the nature of the political regime, using...
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