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When the claim hits: bilateral investment treaties and bounded rational learning

Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard; Aisbett, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they...

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Multinational firms, monopolistic competition and foreign investment uncertainty

Chawla, Arunish - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

FDI option, while growing market size and national income facilitate early exercise. The model is extended to include a … Poisson jump process, which has policy implications for FDI reforms and explains ‘wait and watch’ behaviour of multinational … based on the theory of call options, I solve ‘FDI option’ as a put option, thereby also enriching the theory of real options. …

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International financial integration and entrepreneurship

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...

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Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational firms in European regions

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Rabellotti, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper investigates the geography of multinational corporations’ investments in the EU regions. The ‘traditional’ sources of location advantages (i.e. agglomeration economies, market access and labour market conditions) are considered together with innovation and socio-institutional...

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Regional Distribution and Spatial Impact of FDI in Greece: evidence from firm-level data

Monastiriotis, Vassilis; Jordaan, Jacob A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Studies on the productivity spillovers of FDI have concentrated on the national-sectoral level. As a result, little is … known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by … regions. In this way, despite the tendency of FDI to concentrate in a few only areas within the country –those of the highest …

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Strategies and counter-strategies: China in the Andean region of South America

Chimienti, Ádam; Creutzfeldt, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

By employing a comparative method that analyzes China’s increasing presence in different Latin America countries, this study explores key features and implications of Beijing’s approach towards this region. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are used as case studies to evaluate China’s diplomatic...

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Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy

Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...

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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action

Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...

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Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations

Bowen, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article explores the principles that should guide efforts to raise finance for climate action in developing countries. The main conclusions are that, first, there is an important role for private finance, which would be facilitated by having pervasive and broadly uniform emissions pricing...

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Emerging world order? From multipolarity to multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF

Wade, Robert H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Many developing and transitional countries have grown faster than advanced countries in the past decade, resulting in a shift in the distribution of world income in their favor. China is now the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Japan. As the relative...

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