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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
This study presents a novel set of indicators on outcomes of foreign direct investment spanning 63 developing countries and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, the indicators highlight systematic differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342
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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014
as Japan, Spain, and the United States. Creating a new combined dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI) (covering … greenfield investments as well as mergers and acquisitions) we show that flows of FDI to Organization for Economic Cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070851
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Investment Facilitation and Mode 3 Trade in Services : Are Current Discussions Addressing the Key Issues?
Echandi, Roberto - 2020
Based on a novel approach to measuring the cost of trade in services for Modes 1 (cross-border supply), 2 (consumption abroad), and 4 (temporary movement of service suppliers), developed by the World Trade Organization Secretariat, this pper reviews available evidence on factors affecting trade...
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Are Inflows of FDI Good for Russian Exporters?
Poupakis, Stavros - 2020
This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries. The analysis focuses on the Russian Federation and uses customs data merged with firm-level information from Orbis. The results show a positive relationship between the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838005
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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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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
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Regional Dimensions of Recent Weakness in Investment : Drivers, Investment Needs and Policy Responses
Vashakmadze, Ekaterine - 2017
Investment growth in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) has slowed sharply since 2010. Investment growth performance has varied significantly across different regions, however. This paper examines the temporal evolution of investment growth in six EMDE regions, documents...
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Are Capital Flows Fickle? Increasingly? And Does the Answer Still Depend on Type?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2017
, much of it survives. FDI inflows are more stable than non-FDI inflows. Within non-FDI inflows, portfolio debt and bank …-intermediated flows remain the most volatile. While FDI inflows are driven mainly by pull factors, portfolio debt and equity are driven … outflows from emerging markets behave differently. FDI outflows from emerging markets have grown and become significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962317
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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets
Gomez-Mera, Laura - 2019
How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901103
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FDI and the Skill Premium : Evidence from Emerging Economies
Vargas Da Cruz, Marcio Jose - 2018
Foreign direct investment may play an important role in transferring technologies from high-income to emerging economies, which can lead to uneven effects on the wages of skilled and unskilled workers. This paper combines project-level data on greenfield foreign direct investment with household...
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