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Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment : effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk

Lacroix, Jean; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 2, pp. 340-357

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Do democratic transitions attract foreign investors and how fast?

Lacroix, Jean; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - 2017

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Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men?

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Salomone, Sara; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 251-265

This paper empirically studies emigration patterns of skilled males and females. In the most relevant model accounting for interdependencies between women and men’s decisions, we derive the gendered responses to traditional push factors. Females and males do not respond with the same intensity...

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Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

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Women at the top in developing countries: evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

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FDI Waves, Waves of Neglect of Political Risk

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012

Studies of the impact of local political risk on foreign direct investment inflows overlook that worldwide FDI comes in … waves. Using a simple model we show that the impact of political risk on FDI inflows is likely to be weaker, the larger the … political risk. We find that it is a decreasing function of the worldwide amount of FDI. This finding has been upheld after many …

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Institutional reforms now and benefits tomorrow: How soon is tomorrow?

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid; Weill, Laurent - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2009

This paper investigates the timing of the impact of changes in checks and balances on macroeconomic efficiency in a panel of countries. Using Battese and Coelli’s one-stage approach, we find that increasing checks and balances results in greater efficiency. Furthermore, the impact of...

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Does investment spur growth everywhere? Not where institutions are weak

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid; Dort, Thibaut - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

more in countries with high institutional quality than in countries with defective institutions. The results are …

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The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

. Specifically, the marginal impact of formal legal institutions decreases with trust, and vice versa. These findings apply both to …

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