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Worker remittances and capital flows
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Le Manchec, … - 2002
and the volatility of the main capital flows - foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475864
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Preferential trade agreements and tax competition for foreign direct investment
Raff, Horst - 2002
This paper examines how free-trade agreements and customs unions affect the location of foreign direct investment (FDI …. Conditions are identified under which a free-trade agreement leads to FDI and under which this improves welfare. The welfare … competition. A free-trade agreement may fail to induce welfare-improving FDI, creating a role for a customs union. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410658
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Financial frictions and foreign direct investment : theory and evidence from Japanese microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The … identify two possible transmission channels from financial shocks to FDI: (i) a collateral channel, whereby changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491661
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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496200
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Financial frictions and foreign direct investment : theory and evidence from Japanese microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The … identify two possible transmission channels from financial shocks to FDI: (i) a collateral channel, whereby changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496990
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2014
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440627
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Financial frictions and foreign direct investment : evidence from Japanese microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2018
Using Japanese microdata for the period 1980 to 2000 we find evidence for two transmission channels from financial shocks to foreign direct investment: a collateral channel, whereby changes in the value of investors' landholdings affect their borrowing ability; and a lending channel, whereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820932
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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Foreign ownership and the extensive margins of exports : evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2013
We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772938
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Foreign ownership and the extensive margins of exports : evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2013
We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752805