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Africa’s Burden: Labour Markets, Natural Resources and the FDI ‘Reliance-Rejection’ Paradox
de Mauro, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
identifying an FDI reliance-rejection paradox emanating from the incompatibility between colonial legacies and Structural … Adjustment Programmes. Since the 1980s, international financial institutions have imposed foreign direct investment as the main … locked the continent in an FDI paradox that prevents it from funding its own development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259898
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The national bioenergy investment model: Technical documentation
Kemp-Benedict, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The National Bioenergy Investment Model is a scenario model that simulates the decisions of domestic and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261019
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Re-Think Russian Investment in Southern Africa
Gerasimchuk, Ivetta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Russia’s direct investment of about USD 3 billon in Southern Africa over the past decade has placed before the country … follow the established path of direct investment from developed economies that has, in the words of a famous African leader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052185
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The Behavior of FDI in South Asian Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Syed, Shabib Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyzes the behavior of FDI in South Asian countries using panel data for the period 1970-2004. We applied … fixed effects model to identify the factors that determine FDI inflows. The analysis shows that GDP, trade openness, real … exchange rate, labor force and health expenditures affect FDI positively and significantly. While the impact of military …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110391
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New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Słoczyński, Tymon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper I provide new evidence on the implications of treatment effect heterogeneity for least squares estimation when the effects are inappropriately assumed to be homogenous. I prove that under a set of benchmark assumptions linear regression provides a consistent estimator of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260085
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Partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects and its confidence sets
Fan, Yanqin; Park, Sang Soo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we study partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects of a binary treatment for ideal randomized experiments, ideal randomized experiments with a known value of a dependence measure, and for data satisfying the selection-on-observables assumption respectively....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652944
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Agri-Environment Advisory Activities Effects on Best Management Practices Adoption
Tamini, Lota D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study investigates the factors that determine producers’ participation in agri-environment (AE) extension activities and their adoption of best management practices (BMPs) in Quebec (Canada). Data were collected from farmers in telephone interviews and the impacts of AE extension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552817
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Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals
Hirano, Keisuke; Porter, Jack - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We examine challenges to estimation and inference when the objects of interest are nondifferentiable functionals of the underlying data distribution. This situation arises in a number of applications of bounds analysis and moment inequality models, and in recent work on estimating optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034985
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The impact of science and technology parks on firms´ product innovation: empirical evidence from Spain
Urriago, Vásquez; Rocio, Ángela; Barge-Gil, Andrés; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Science and Technology Parks (STP) are one of the most important and extensive innovation policy initiatives introduced in recent years. This work evaluates the impact of STP on firm product innovation in the Spanish context. Spain is less developed than most of the advanced countries, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019708
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Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effects
Bellemare, Marc F.; Masaki, Takaaki; Pepinsky, Thomas B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Across the social sciences, lagged explanatory variables are a common strategy to confront challenges to causal identification using observational data. We show that "lag identification"--the use of lagged explanatory variables to solve endogeneity problems--is an illusion: lagging independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185683