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What is real and what is not in the global FDI network?
Damgaard, Jannick; Elkjaer, Thomas; Johannesen, Niels - 2019
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers with enormous inward and outward … investment positions. This paper uses several new data sources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while … percent of global FDI. Ignoring phantom investment and allocating real investment to ultimate investors increases the …
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FDI, global value chains, and local sourcing in developing countries
Amendolagine, Vito; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - 2017
The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112331
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The global FDI network : searching for ultimate investors
Damgaard, Jannick; Elkjaer, Thomas - 2017
This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), id est, challenges when … using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries … between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special purpose entities (SPEs), and (iii) the effect of moving from …
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422237
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A Global Perspectiveon External Positions
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian-Maria - 2005
This paper highlights the increased dispersion in net external positions in recent years, particularly among industrial countries. It provides a simple accounting framework that disentangles the factors driving the accumulation of external assets and liabilities (such as trade imbalances,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404202
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Selod, Harris - 2011
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/10014397824
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Financial Globalization and the Governance of Domestic Financial Intermediaries
Tressel, Thierry - 2007
the general equilibrium effects of capital flows (portfolio investments and loans, FDI) on the governance of domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400135
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Global firms, national corporate taxes : an evolution of incompatibility
Hebous, Shafik - 2020
How did the rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) put pressure on the prevailing international corporate tax framework? MNEs, and firms with market power, are not new phenomena, nor is the corporate income tax, which dates to the early 20th century. This prompts the question, what is...
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Impacts of labor market institutions and demographic factors on labor markets in Latin America
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper documents recent labor market performance in the Latin American region. The paper shows that unemployment, informality, and inequality have been falling over the past two decades, though still remain high. By contrast, productivity has remained stubbornly low. The paper, then, turns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102140
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Wage-price dynamics and structural reforms in Japan
Porcellacchia, Davide - 2016
Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance-play in generating unfavorable wage-price dynamics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436738