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Unraveling the Worldwide Pollution Haven Effect

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2016

endowments and environmental policies have only marginally affected the pollution content of world trade during the 1986 …

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Unraveling the World-Wide Pollution Haven Effect

Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; de Melo, Jaime - 2014

This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the pollution content of trade (measured by the polluction content of imports (PCI)) and decomposing it into three components: a 'deep' (i.e. unrelated to the environmental debate)...

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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 determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...

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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Lejarraga, Iza - 2018

and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …

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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details

Osnago, Alberto - 2017

Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...

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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

This paper examines how financial development influences foreign direct investment. The direct and indirect sector-specific effects that source countries' financial development and destination countries' financial development can have on foreign direct investment are first identified in a...

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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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