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This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...
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This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the … and the distribution of outward FDI stocks among these countries. The results reveal a complementarity between trade and …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5 percent for Poland and …
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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern … vertical FDI. The market-seeking strategy appears to be more important than factor-proportion related motivations; however, the … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …
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regime increases worldwide FDI and raises the world interest rate. Distinguishing three groups of countries, we show that … income countries are likely to gain from increased inward FDI, whereas least developed countries lose because they receive … less FDI. Our results explain the stylized fact that a multilateral investment agreement was opposed by least developed …
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many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …
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between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with … uncertain productivity growth, market entry through FDI increases even further. Uncertainty is identified as a compounding force …
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We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March 2019 the Leave vote had led to a 17% increase in the number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining...
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Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...
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This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that ISDS can mitigate the holdup problem and increases aggregate...
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This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314819