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India's FDI Inflows: Trends and Concepts

K, S Chalapati Rao; Dhar, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

‐06, official statistics started reporting steep increases in FDI inflows. This paper is an attempt to explain this divergence from … international norms in measuring the FDI inflows. The study finds that portfolio investors and round-tripping investments have been … important contributors to India’s reported FDI inflows thus blurring the distinction between direct and portfolio investors on …

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The Proliferation of Fiscal Incentives and the Nicaraguan State as a Manager of Rents: A Political Economy Perspective on Nicaraguan Industrial Policy Since 1990

Maas, Hauke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper finds that the proliferation of fiscal incentives in the form of tax exemptions in Nicaragua since 1990 represents the indiscriminate allocation of monopoly rents to interest groups. While theory suggests some rents can encourage productive investments, Nicaragua’s tax incentives...

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Tax incentives and household investment in complementary pension insurance: some recent evidence from the Italian experience

Marino, Immacolata; Pericoli, Filippo; Ventura, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We show, by a simple difference-in-difference methodology that, contrary to prior research, robustly raising the deductibility limit associated to pension fund holdings in Italy did not succeed in boosting households’ contributions to this form of savings. Some other empirical finding also...

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An Error Correction Model Analysis of the Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Nigeria.

Okpara, Godwin Chigozie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

incentives, availability of natural resources and trade openness to FDI without reverse or feed back effect. The parsimonious … investment inflows. Also, while inadequate natural resources reduce the inflow of FDI, fiscal incentives, favorable government … policy, exchange rate and infrastructural development are found to be a positive and significant function of FDI in Nigeria …

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English Individualism and Continental Altruism? Servants, Remittances and Welfare in Eighteenth-Century Rural Europe.

Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Life-cycle service was one of the characteristic aspects of the European Marriage Pattern. The majority of the children of labourers and peasants left the household of their parents during adolescence to acquire material resources and skills in preparation of marriage. Whilst in service,...

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Property Rights and Corruption

Kemal, M Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Property rights are the core of economic development. Property rights are essential for the people to believe in the market system. The paper discusses importance of property rights, problems in the property rights in Pakistan, possibility of designing property rights in Pakistan and its impact...

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Explaining social capital effects on growth and property rights via trust-alternative variables

Ahmad, Mahyudin; Hall, Stephen G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In our previous paper “Can Trust Explain Social Capital Effect on Property Rights and Growth?” (Hall & Ahmad, 2013) we show that generalized trust data by the World Value Survey (WVS) are unable to yield sufficiently robust results in panel estimation due to missing observations problem. In...

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Stakeholders Model of Governance in Islamic Economic System

Iqbal, Zamir; Mirakhor, Abbas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The paper discusses the design of an efficient and optimal corporate governance structure of a firm within Islamic economic system. The objective of this paper is to identify factors, which will influence corporate governance within an Islamic economic system and to examine if corporate...

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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources: a Model

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...

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The Role of Managerial Work in Market Performance: A Monopoly Model with Team Production

Hildenbrand, Andreas; Duran, Mihael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

A monopolist is treated as a nexus of contracts with team production. It has one owner-manager who is the employer of two employees. A team production problem is present if the employer is a “managerial lemon.” If the team production problem is solved, the employer is a “managerial...

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