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European FDI strategies in Mercosur countries

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

Mercosur countries have witnessed a boom of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows since the early 1990s. However, regional integration, viewed in isolation, was not sufficient for the subregion to regain its attractiveness to FDI. FDI growth in individual Mercosur countries was closely related...

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Trade protection during the crisis : does it deter foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Labonte, Philipp - 2011

This paper looks empirically at the implications that protectionist measures implemented during the current crisis may have had for a country’s ability to attract foreign direct investment. The research utilizes data on such measures that is available from Global Trade Alert, combined with...

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Can trade really hurt? : An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for sitations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's "Act II" effects may occur....

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Firms' global engagement and management practices

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017

We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany. We calculate...

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Determinants of FDI in developing countries : Has globalization changed the rules of the game?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign … its relevance well before globalization became a hotly debated issue. …

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Financing for development : the gap between words and deeds since Monterrey

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders …

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More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? : Not a Bit!

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010

We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...

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Do trade and investment agreements lead to more FDI? : Accounting for key provisions inside the black box

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...

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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012

empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …

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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? : A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows

Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - 2012

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo...

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