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Real convergence in Central and Eastern European EU Member States: which role for exchange rate volatility?

Arratibel, Olga; Furceri, Davide; Martin, Reiner - 2008

This paper analyzes the relation between exchange rate volatility and several macroeconomic variables, namely real per capita output growth, the credit cycle, the stock of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance, in the Central and Eastern European EU Member...

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Assessing the Spillover Effects of FDI to the Philippines

Aldaba, Rafaelita M.; Aldaba, Fernando T. - 2010

The experience of the Philippines shows that FDI spillover effects are not automatically generated. Opening up the economy to FDI has contributed to the country's exports of high-technology products and overall economic growth. However, the spillover effects of FDI to domestic firms have...

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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries

Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...

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Investment, institutions, and governance in Asia

de Dios, Emmanuel S.; Ducanes, Geoffrey M. - 2011

We investigate the extent to which the investment slowdown in many Asian countries since the Asian Financial Crisis is attributable to changes in governance institutions. In the process we test the more general hypothesis that different aspects of governance will become relevant constraints to...

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Stimulating investment and growth in the Philippines: The need for first-order market reforms

Desierto, Desiree A.; Ducanes, Geoffrey M. - 2011

We show that the most important barriers to investment and growth in the Philippines are structural and institutional problems that are characteristic of limited access societies, which can be more effectively and efficiently overcome by prioritizing 'first-order' market reforms that increase...

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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas

Hinrichs, Cord - 2005

kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …

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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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Foreign direct investments: current challenges; introduction

Yalcin, Erdal - In: CESifo Forum 16 (2015) 2, pp. 3-4

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Endogenous Determination of FDI Growth and Economic Growth:The OECD Case

Türkcan, Burcu; Yetkiner, I. Hakan - 2008

This paper tests the endogenous relationship between FDI growth and economic growth using a panel dataset for 23 OECD countries for the period 1975-2004. In particular we estimate a two-equation simultaneous equation system with the generalized methods of moments (GMM) that treats economic...

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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches

Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...

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