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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries

Kusek, Peter - 2018

This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and decision making across the stages of the investment cycle: attraction, entry and establishment, operations and expansion, linkages...

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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

The Direct and Indirect Costs of Tax Treaty Policy : Evidence from Ukraine

Balabushko, Oleksii - 2017

This study combines macro and micro data to quantify the revenue effects ofdouble tax treaties. First, drawing on administrative information, the study estimates the tax sensitivity of income flows (dividend, interest, and royalty payments) at an aggregate level. The analysis finds important...

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Surges and Stops in FDI Flows to Developing Countries : Does the Mode of Entry Make a Difference?

Burger, Martijn J. - 2017

This paper investigates the factors associated with foreign direct investment "surges" and "stops," defined as sharp increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated based on whether these events are led by waves in...

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Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...

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Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China'S"Special Characteristics"

Du, Luosha - 2017

The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China's domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China's "special characteristics" : (1) the different...

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The Changing Patterns of Financial Integration in Latin America

Didier, Tatiana - 2017

This paper describes how Latin America and the Caribbean has been integrating financially with countries in the North and South since the 2000s. The paper shows that the region is increasingly more connected with the rest of the world, even relative to gross domestic product. The region's...

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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?

de la Torre, Augusto - 2017

This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …

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Globalization and Firms'Financing Choices - Evidence from Emerging Economies

Grootaert, Christian - 2017

The authors investigate whether integration with global markets affects the financing choices of firms from East Asia and Latin America. Using firm-level data for the 1980s and 1990s, they study how leverage ratios, the structure of debt maturity, and sources of financing change when economies...

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Equity and Bond Flows to Asia and Latin America : The Role of Global and Country Factors

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2017

The authors investigate what has motivated the large portfolio flows to several developing countries in recent years. Using monthly data on U.S. capital flows to nine Latin American and nine Asian countries (instead of monthly reserves data), they analyze the behavior of bond andequity flows to...

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