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Populist Fiscal Policy
Khemani, Stuti - 2016
Political economy explanations for fiscal profligacy are dominated by models of bargaining among organized interest groups over group-specific targeted benefits financed by generalized taxation. These models predict that governments consisting of a coalition of political parties spend more than...
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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
regulations, tax, and land access are found to be relatively unimportant. The analysis also finds that the effects of the business …
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Will Markets Direct Investments Under the Kyoto Protocol?
Larson, Donald F. - 2016
Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries can meet treaty obligations by investing in projects that reduce or sequester greenhouse gases elsewhere. Prior to ratification, treaty participants agreed to launch country-based pilot projects, referred to collectively as Activities Implemented Jointly...
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Determinants of International Buyout Investments
Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020
Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the … of international buyout capital flows. The paper shows that countries with low unemployment, more active stock and credit …
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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details
Osnago, Alberto - 2017
affect the international organization of production. The paper constructs new measures of the depth of preferential trade …
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The Impact of Investment Policy in a Changing Global Economy : a Review of the Literature
Echandi, Roberto - 2017
Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....
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The Effects of Financial Development on Foreign Direct Investment
Desbordes, Rodolphe - 2017
greatly facilitates the international expansion of firms through foreign direct investment, especially in financially …
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Credit Conditions and Foreign Direct Investment During the Global Financial Crisis
Desbordes, Rodolphe - 2017
This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct...
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
investment inflows and inflows per capita, the Doing Business 2013 Enforcing Contracts data, the World Bank Group's Governance … Indicators, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Indicators, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency …'s World Investment and Political Risk data. The paper concludes by identifying several opportunities for improvement, such as …
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Converting and Transferring Currency : Benchmarking Foreign Exchange Restrictions to Foreign Direct Investment Across Economies
Anderson, John - 2017
The ease of converting and transferring currency is a crucial consideration for firms investing in a foreign economy. The Converting and Transferring Currency data and indicators measure foreign exchange restrictions most relevant for foreign direct investment across economies to identify common...
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