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Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
Hausmann, Ricardo; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and with better institutions and policies. It finds that this view is patently wrong since it stands...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Financial Decisions and Investment Outcomes in Developing Countries: The Role of Institutions
Turk, Rima - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
institutions as well as deepening capital markets in developing countries to improve financing conditions and investment outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242231
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Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Investment?: Micro Evidence from Developing Countries
Galindo, Arturo José; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Weiss, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
also developed a summary index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to what extent …, investment funds are going to firms with a higher marginal return to capital. Then it was examined the relationship between this … has led to an increase in the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944537
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INVESTMENT AND EXPORT-LED INDUSTRIALIZATION: FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND EXPORT PROMOTION OF EAST ASIAN FIRMS
Nagano, Mamoru - In: Journal of Economic Development 30 (2005) 1, pp. 81-93
This paper aims to empirically examine the determinants that influence the investment decisions of firms in East Asia … investment decisions in all the sample countries in the region. In addition, the study found that export expansion led to … increasing internal funding capability, which had a positive influence on the firm¡¯s investment decision. …
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Is the investment-cash flow sensitivity still useful to gauge financing constraints?
Chichti, Jamel E.; Mansour, Walid - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 71-84
Most of the papers in corporate finance use the investment-cash flow sensitivity as a key metric to gauge financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755557
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Strategic Investment Under Uncertainty : Merging Real Options with Game Theory
Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter; Pawlina, G.; Thijssen, J.J.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
As becomes apparent from the standard text books in industrial organization (cf.Tirole, 1988, The Theory of Industrial Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new theory of strategic real options can be used to...
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Is Business Saving Really None of Our Business?
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Bebczuk, Ricardo N. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper investigates the relevance of business saving for private saving and investment around the world by … associated with higher business investment. In conjuction with the empirical results, this paper sheds new light on the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944516
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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
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Financement, investissement et performances des entreprises industrielles françaises
Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995
Les interrogations nombreuses au sujet des PME en restent généralement à un constat d' insuffisance de fonds propre, confondant ainsi problème de financement et nature de celui-ci. En outre elles trouvent leur origine dans une comparaison abusive avec les grandes entreprises, ignorant des...
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