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High Growth and Low Consumption in East Asia; How to Improve Welfare While Avoiding Financial Failures

Rochon, Céline; Feltenstein, Andrew; Shamloo, Maral - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

, loosely based upon China. We calibrate a benchmark equilibrium, and carry out various counterfactual simulations to analyze …

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Determinants of, and the Relation Between, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth; A Summary of the Recent Literature

Lim, Ewe-Ghee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper summarizes recent arguments/findings on two aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI): its correlation with economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while the second deals with the determinants of FDI....

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The Effect of Capital Controlson Foreign Direct Investment Decisions Under Country Risk with Intangible Assets

Elo, Kinga Z. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning's "eclectic theory" framework, using "real options" to emphasize economic...

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FDI Flows to Asia; Did the Dragon Crowd Out the Tigers?

Mercereau, Benoît - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

China's dramatic success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) has raised concerns that it has success diverted … impact of China's emergence on FDI flows to Asia using data from 14 Asian economies from 1984 to 2002. The results suggest … that China did not have much impact on FDI to other countries. In particular, lowincome economies, which compete with China …

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Clusters As a Driving Engine for FDI

Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper develops a model that highlights the importance of clusters for attracting foreign direct investment. It shows from a game theoretical perspective how the combination of setting up a cluster and implementing policy reforms will be a key engine for attracting FDI. Based on...

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Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

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The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows; New Evidence from the SDDS

Hashimoto, Yuko; Wacker, Konstantin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...

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People's Republic of China; 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

This staff report on Peopleâ€™s Republic of China 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights macroeconomic developments … and outlook. China has maintained robust growth since the global crisis, but the heavy reliance on credit and investment …

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Peru: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This Selected Issues paper examines application of fiscal framework alternatives to the case of Peru. Although growth has been at historical highs over the last decade, Peru still has an important infrastructure gap and a quarter of its population still lives in poverty. This paper applies...

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Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China

Hu, Zuliu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1994

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