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Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: Magnitudes and Location Choice of New Manufacturing Plants
Ondrich, Jan; Wasylenko, Michael - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
What effect does foreign direct investment (FDI) have on job creation, wages, and productivity in the U.S.? How does … FDI impact the budget deficit? How do changes in states' fiscal policy affect plant location choices? Ondrych and … Wasylenko address these and other politically-charged questions concerning FDI. Provided is empirical evidence drawn from a …
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Regional Policy and FDI Location – an Overview of the Larger New EU Member States
Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Summary The paper compares three countries (Hungary, Poland and Romania) in terms of the number of greenfield FDI … gaps in attracting new FDI projects and a dominance of the capital cities. Regional discrepancies between NUTS-2 regions in … powerful tools directing the location choice of new FDI projects. …
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Foreign Investment, Urban Unemployment, and Informal Sector
Yabuuchi, Shigemi; Hamid, Hamid - In: Journal of Economic Integration 20 (2005), pp. 123-138
In this paper we extend the Harris-Todaro model to include an urban informal sector. The effects of exogenous inflow of foreign capital on outputs, unemployment and welfare are examined in the model where the product of the informal sector is used as an industrial input in the urban formal...
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Economic freedom and foreign direct investment in developing countries
Kapuria-Foreman, Vibha. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 41 (2007) 1, pp. 143-154
FDI. In addition to economic factors affecting foreign direct investment, the analysis also tests for the role of …, it disaggregates the data on economic freedom and re-estimates the relationship between FDI and components of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213081
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Foreign Direct Investment and Shadow Economy: A Causality Analysis Using Panel Data
Nikopour, Hesam; Shah Habibullah, Muzafar; Schneider, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper investigates the link between the shadow economy and FDI using the Granger panel causality test. For … that purpose we use the shadow economy and FDI data for 145 countries of five data points 1999/2000, 2001/2002, 2002 …/2003, 2003/2004 and 2004/2005. The system GMM estimation results show that FDI causes the shadow economy and vice versa. The …
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Low-income housing finance in Colombia
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Camacho, Carolina; Fajardo, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of life and the quality of dwelling of the beneficiaries. Using the Quality of Life Surveys conducted...
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Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Camacho, Carolina; Fajardo, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of life and the quality of dwelling of the beneficiaries. Using the Quality of Life Surveys conducted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386050
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QUALITA' DELLE REGOLE E SVILUPPO LOCALE
Pini, Graziano - In: Economia, Societa', e Istituzioni XVIII (2006) 2
Il saggio (work in progress) tratta della necessità di potenziare nel nostro paese le attività di miglioramento della regolazione (better regulation), anche attraverso crescenti iniziative di valutazione d'impatto della stessa. In particolare, l'autore si sofferma sull'analisi delle...
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Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
Field, Erica; Levinson, Matthew; Pande, Rohini; … - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 505-10
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Endogenizing governments' objectives in tax competition
Pal, Rupayan; Sharma, Ajay - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 4, pp. 570-578
In this paper we endogenize objective functions of the regions in case the of tax competition for foreign owned mobile capital. First, considering symmetric regions and simultaneous move tax competition, we demonstrate that the competing regions can restrict ‘race-to-the-bottom’ in tax rates...
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