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Remittance Service Providers in the United States : How Remittance Firms Operate and How They Perceive Their Business Environment
Andreassen, Ole E. - 2007
This paper presents the findings of a survey of 73 remittance firms in 6 U.S. states, where company executives were interviewed in person. The paper finds that the largest obstacles to doing business that remittance firms face are related to obtaining bank accounts, licensing and bond...
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What Caused the Recent Surge of FDI into Japan?
Paprzycki, Ralph - 2006
In recent years, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Japan has jumped to unprecedented levels. This paper examines the … underlying reasons, looking at both the international factors - the global boom in FDI and mergers amp; acquisitions … the necessary conditions for Japan to participate in the global Mamp;A boom, FDI inflows failed to develop a momentum of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734297
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Prilog istoriji trgovine i migracije Balkan - Podunavl'e XVIII i XIX stoleća : Ured. Viktor Novak
Gavrilović, Slavko - 1969
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002269890
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Why Diasporas Invest in the Homeland : A Conceptual Model of Motivation
Nielsen, Tjai M. - 2007
Little is known about why diaspora members invest in their homelands or why investment intensity varies among diaspora communities. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, we generate a multi-level, conceptual model of diaspora homeland investment. Our model examines the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730047
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Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Outsourcing : Global Competitiveness Versus Political Feasibility
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2007
We analyze the effects of outsourcing in the presence of a minimum wage by presenting a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. An outsourcing tax is politically popular because it switches jobs to unemployed natives. It is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731416
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FDI as an Outcome of the Market for Corporate Control : Theory and Evidence
Head, Keith - 2006
Much foreign direct investment (FDI) takes the form of mergers and acquisitions (Mamp;A). It is commonplace in finance … of FDI in which headquarters bid to control overseas assets. We derive an equation for bilateral FDI stocks that … resembles the recently developed fixed effects approach to modelling bilateral trade flows. We estimate the model and use its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733022
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Born in the U.S.A.? Rethinking Birthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11
Eastman, John C. - 2006
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims (Sept. 29, 2005) contends that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment has been misconstrued as mandating birthright citizenship. Rather, the clause was a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733515
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The Alchemy of Finance : A Political Economy
Clark, Gordon L. - 2006
Global finance is often demonised by its critics; those critics may be well intentioned in that they speak on behalf of the welfare of working men and women. Critics may be also entrenched elites concerned with protecting their own power and privilege rather than the future welfare of society....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733696
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Remittances and Their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2005
What determines remittances - altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012736637
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Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany
Sinning, Mathias - 2008
This paper examines the relative wealth position and the portfolio choices of immigrants in Germany. The empirical findings reveal significant differences in overall wealth and various wealth components between German natives and immigrants. Differences in real estate constitute the major part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773280