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Option Value, Policy Uncertainty, and the Foreign Direct Investment Decision
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801356
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Comparative Advantages, Transaction Costs and Factor Content in Agricultural Trade: Empirical Evidence from the CEE
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, d'Artis; Pokrivcak, Jan - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The present study examines factor content in the CEE transition country agricultural trade. However, deviating from the traditional approach, we do not test the HOV prediction. Instead, we examine the theoretical predictions that relate the factor content of international trade to cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525134
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Gender Inequality and Trade
Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005468556
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Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour
Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005468567
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Trade and Investment Effects of Forced Labour: An Empirical Assessment
Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour … investment is negatively linked with forced labour. This result even holds for relatively poor developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989334
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Environmental regulation and international trade patterns for agro-industrial under a South-North Perspective
Feix, Rodrigo Daniel; Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao de; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
This paper aims at examining the relation between the international trade and the environment, particularly focused on sensitive agribusiness sectors. It consists on an empirical test to the conflicting positions supported by economists, some following the traditional approach (trade-off or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039468
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Analysing major determinants of European FDI into the Mediterranean countries
Weissleder, Lucie M.; Heckelei, Thomas - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is known as a very relevant driver of economic growth and has found increased attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039497
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EU farmers' intentions to invest in 2014-2020: complementarity between asset classes
Lefebvre, Marianne; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio; Viaggi, Davide - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
account the possibility of simultaneous investments and the potential correlations among these investment decisions. We find …, farmer's age. This paper contributes to the limited literature on farmers' investment decisions at EU-level. Future versions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124996
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Option Value, Policy Uncertainty, and the Foreign Direct Investment Decision
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957352
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Financial Risks, Bankruptcy Probabilities, and the Investment Behaviour of Enterprises
Kirchesch, Kai - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
The link between investment and finance usually enters the empirical literature in the form of financial constraints … which are defined as the wedge between the costs of internal and external finance or as the risk of being rationed on the … credit market. In this context, the sensitivity of investment with respect to single internal or external finance indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957395