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Financial Risks, Bankruptcy Probabilities, and the Investment Behaviour of Enterprises

Kirchesch, Kai - 2004

The link between investment and finance usually enters the empirical literature in the form of financial constraints … credit market. In this context, the sensitivity of investment with respect to single internal or external finance indicators … resulting empirical investment function includes the probability of survival as an additional explanatory variable. This …

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Option Value, Policy Uncertainty, and the Foreign Direct Investment Decision

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2003

In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …

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FDI, Regulations and Growth

Busse, Matthias - 2006

The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the …

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What Gravity Models Can Tell Us About the Position of German FDI in Central and Eastern Europe

Borrmann, Christina; Jungnickel, Rolf; Keller, Dietmar - 2005

The tradition of gravity models is in the analysis of trade flows with market size and geographic or economic distance as core variables. Both these variables can be important determinants of FDI, too. However, when such models are used to explain FDI, there can be differences in the mode of...

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FDI, Regulations and Growth

Busse, Matthias; Groizard Cardosa, José Luis - 2006

The paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295531

The final frontier? Border effects and German regional wages

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...

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Agglomeration and growth with and without capital mobility

Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard; Martin, Philippe J.; … - 2001

This paper presents a simple framework in which the location and the growth rate of economic activities are endogenous and interact. We show that the nature of the equilibrium and of the relation between growth and location depends fundamentally on whether capital is assumed to be mobile (in...

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The geography and channels of diffusion at the world's technology frontier

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

for technology diffusion, how this changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and … bilateral technology diffusion, whereas foreign direct investment and language skills differences contribute circa 15% each …

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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic research. Although a vast number of empirical studies has emerged, evidence on the role of spatial interaction is still rather scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide...

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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