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world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of … paper uses Panel Least Squares method to empirically analyze the impact of industrial sector FDI on Chinese regional … inequality during 2003-2013. The resulting analysis shows the connection between FDI in industrial sectors and regional …
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This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …
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Despite the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries, these resources have not had a … and employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub …-Saharan Africa. The results suggest that firstly, FDI crowds in domestic investment, and secondly, countries will gain much from …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate...
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Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman- Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
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types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
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By using data on cross-border acquisitions (CBAs), this paper explores the distribution of the strategies pursued when multinational enterprizes integrate a foreign subsidiary into their organisational structure. Based on a measure of vertical relatedness, each of the 165,000 acquisitions in our...
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decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large … variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI …. This chapter aims at examining the size of FDI in South East Asia and the trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in …
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore two dimensions of the firm hierarchy of international market-specific linkages using data for Swedish manufacturing firms over the 1997 to 2007 period. First, we investigate the productivity ordering with respect to importing, exporting and...
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incentives in relation to FDI inflows. The impact of such institutional variables on FDI have been typically studied using large … overall protection to investors. The importance of institutional variables in influencing FDI into India tells us that overall …
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