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This paper assesses whether cross-border M and A decisions exhibit network effects. We estimate exponential random graph models (ERGM) and temporal exponential random graph models (TERGM) to evaluate the determinants of cross-country M and A investments at the sectoral level. The results show...
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Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume and become more diversified from natural resources to other industries. Using cross-border mergers and acquisitions data, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas...
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We develop and test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance spillovers in the host country. Using firm-level data on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate governance in 22 countries, we find that cross-border M&As are associated with...
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Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with … liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances …
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decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …
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There is increasing interest in fiscal decentralization in Peru as a mechanism to generate more involved decision … decentralization process with greater transparency …
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ambitious decentralization program implemented by the authorities since the late 1990s has had mixed results in terms of …
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This paper examines a typology of grants that are used across the world, and places these in the context of the overall constitutional and legal framework for a country. It looks at the options for grants, given the need to maintain overall macroeconomic stability, efficiency in the use of...
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decentralization and the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution. By contrast, it has generally put … less emphasis on the effects of decentralization on macroeconomic management, although policymakers worldwide increasingly … have to grapple with these effects. This paper examines the constraints that a high degree of decentralization can place on …
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