Parametric regression models are widely used in public health sciences. This dissertation is concerned with statistical inference under such models with some covariates missing at random. Under natural conditions, parameters remain identifiable from the observed (reduced) data. If the always...

Parametric regression models are widely used in public health sciences. This dissertation is concerned with statistical inference under such models with some covariates missing at random. Under natural conditions, parameters remain identifiable from the observed (reduced) data. If the always...

This paper studies the impact of corruption on inward foreign direct investment using a unique firm-level data set. It examines two effects of corruption simultaneously: a reduction in the volume of foreign investment and a shift in the ownership structure. Corruption makes local bureaucracy...

This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from fourteen source countries to forty-five host countries during 1990-91. There are three central findings. (1) A rise in either the tax rate on multinational firms or the...