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Nicolini, Marcella - 2021

Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...

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Economic Globalisation and Africa's Quest for Greener and More Inclusive Growth : The Missing Link

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa’s mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …

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Quality Versus Quantity - The Composition Effect of Corporate Taxation on Foreign Direct Investment

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2021

This paper studies corporate taxation in a model where foreign investment of firms may affect the profitability of the investor firm's domestic activities. In this framework, corporate taxes distort the quality, not just the quantity of foreign direct investment flows. High-tax countries may see...

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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella - 2007

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Does public governance always matter? How experience of poor institutional quality influences FDI to the South

Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian - 2010

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...

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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firmsâ€™ Offshoring Decisions

Moriconi, Simone - 2019

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...

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What Drives Financial Development? A Meta-Regression Analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris - 2020

This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...

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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions

Rauscher, Michael - 2019

We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and international conventions and where bureaucrats benefit from accepting bribes from detected perpetrators. Firms and bureaucrats are heterogeneous. Employers differ in their...

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Social Finance

Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison

Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...

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