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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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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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Financial market development in host and source countries and its effects on bilateral FDI

Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

We estimate gravity-type models to assess the effects of financial market development in the host and source countries on bilateral FDI stocks. We address potential reverse causality, inter alia by performing instrumental variable estimations and restricting the sample to observations where...

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How global is FDI? : evidence from the analysis of Theil indices

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a few large and relatively advanced host countries. We calculate and decompose Theil indices to track changes in absolute and relative concentration of FDI during...

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Bilateral investment treaties do work : until they don't

Aisbett, Emma; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and policy debate. Despite its importance, there has been very little work to date on the impacts of compensation claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host...

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Winning or losing in investor-to-state dispute resolution : the role of arbitrator bias and experience

Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

When an investor sues a state for alleged breaches of its obligations under an investment treaty or a trade agreement with investment provisions, all that should matter for who wins the case are the merits of the claim itself. Alas, investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) does not take place...

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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; Andrés Sosa, Maximiliano - In: Review of development economics 21 (2017) 1, pp. 126-156

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Democracies cooperate more : even where it threatens to bite?

Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2015

Estimating two-step selection models, we find that more democratic governments are more likely to conclude preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and to agree to stricter investment provisions related to pre-establishment national treatment and investor-state dispute settlement in PTAs. This is...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment : the role of industry and host-country characteristics

Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); Spatz, Julius (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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