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Why Does Fdi Go Where it Goes? New Evidence From the Transition Economies

Kinoshita, Yuko; Campos, Nauro F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-a-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a unique panel data set for 25 transition economies between 1990 and 1998, we find that the main...

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Technology Transfer And Technology Policy In A Developing Country

Ray, Saon - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 371-396

developing country through spillovers. This paper examines the welfare effects of technology policy of a developing country …

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Ukraine; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper investigates the economic importance of institutions in Ukraine, and attempts to quantify the potential benefits of market-friendly structural reforms. The paper reviews some of the key findings of the development-accounting literature, which has tried to explain the...

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Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Sweden

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1994

This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...

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Can the presence of foreign investment affect the capital structure of domestic firms?

Anwar, Sajid; Sun, Sizhong - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 30 (2015) C, pp. 32-43

Using a simple theoretical model, this paper argues that an increase in foreign presence, which refers to the level of foreign investment in a given domestic firm, can affect the leverage of domestic firms. We apply the model to explore the link between foreign presence and leverage with firm...

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Technology Sourcing in Swedish MNEs and SMEs: Evidence from Patent Data

Globerman, Steven; Kokko, Ari; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

and FDI also seem to facilitate the transfer of foreign technology to Sweden. However, trade contacts seem to be more … important for technology sourcing in SMEs than in MNEs. Moreover, the results suggest that outward FDI is a significant channel … for the diffusion of foreign technology to MNEs as well as to non- multinational firms, while inward FDI seems to have a …

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth; Firm-Level Evidence From the United States

Yeaple, Stephen R.; Keller, Wolfgang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 11 percent of … is weaker than for FDI spillovers. The paper also gives a detailed account of why our study leads to results different …We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …

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