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Location choices of multinational firms in Europe: the role of national boundaries and EU policy
Basile, Roberto; Castellani, Davide; Zanfei, Antonello - EconWPA - 2003
of labor markets. National boundaries do not seem to affect location decisions, with the relevant exception of Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119241
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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and … resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to … institutions? What specific aspects of institutions are responsible for economic performance? This paper suggests that two broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125631
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Human Capital and Income across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2005
The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance has uncovered important … questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed … differences in performance across parts of one economy sharing similar institutions? This paper suggests that two broad aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125647
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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004
Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict … performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at … superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs). It finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125690
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INFRASTRUCTURAL v. SUPERSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONS ON INCOME DETERMINATION ACROSS U.S. NATIVE AMERICAN ECONOMIES
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which part of institutions does so, and why do … economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper applies a novel model that is capable of … separating infrastructural and superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income using a cross- section of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118789
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Why are Preferential Trade Agreements Regional? Increasing Returns, Multinationals and the Geography of Free Trade Agreements
Ludema, Rodney D. - EconWPA - 1999
This paper uses a model of horizontal multinational enterprises to explore the relationship between transportation costs and trade policy cooperation. Tariffs have the effect of attracting foreign direct investment to the benefit of consumers in the host country. As transport costs fall, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062652
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
Washington Consensus doctrine. The new mantra from the Washington Consensus Mark 2 is “get the institutions right.” The danger is … that an elastic definition of the term “institutions” will render the current mantra intellectually vacuous. 3. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001
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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
Washington Consensus doctrine. The new mantra from the Washington Consensus Mark 2 is “get the institutions right.” The danger is … that an elastic definition of the term “institutions” will render the current mantra intellectually vacuous. 3. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
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Sequential International Joint-Ventures and the Option to Choose
Lukas, Elmar - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this study is to formalize the optimal choice of market entry strategy for an individual multinational enterprise (MNE) from a dynamic perspective. It is argued that incorporating a suitable treatment of irreversibility, uncertainty and flexibility related to a MNEs investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125492
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Pollution Haven or Hythe? New Evidence from Mexico
Waldkirch, Andreas; Gopinath, Munisamy - EconWPA - 2004
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into developing countries have been increasing dramatically over the past decade. At the same time, there has been widespread concern that lax environmental standards are in part responsible for this surge. This paper revisits the pollution haven hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408016