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China's Investment Rate : Implications and Prospects
Holz, Carsten A. - 2017
For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment...
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Going Offshore : Investments in German Wind Energy Under Uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019855
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Home Bank Intermediation of Foreign Direct Investment
Poelhekke, Steven - 2011
countries, rather than for its international clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes … significant costs of investment. Using a new detailed data set of non-stationary sector-level outward FDI, this paper finds that … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …
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The Empirics of China's Outward Direct Investment
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China's investments in developed and developing countries are driven by different sets of factors. Subject to the differences between developed and developing countries, there is evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095995
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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China's Outward FDI : An Industry-Level Analysis of Host Country Determinants
Amighini, Alessia A. - 2012
We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using … strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory on FDI determinants. Our results show that only FDI in manufacturing … is attracted by market seeking motivations. As expected, resource seeking is an important motivation for Chinese FDI in …
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A Touch of Sophistication : FDI and Unit Values of Exports
Harding, Torfinn - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153286
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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market : A Steady-State Analysis
Wang, Ping - 2008
We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of...
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation
Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …
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