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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth : 99 countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … negatively associated with growth during the mid 1990s. The magnitudes of the negative effect of surges in portfolio debt inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009270034
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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth : 99 countries, 1991 - 2007
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237002
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Emerging Economies’ Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment
Groh, Alexander Peter - 2012
This paper uses a composite measure to examine why some countries attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) than others. The measure considers all identified, measurable, and comparable socioeconomic aspects that affect FDI decisions on an aggregated country level. As a result, we can rank...
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A Composite Measure to Determine a Host Country's Attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investment
Groh, Alexander Peter; Wich, Matthias - 2014
We contribute to the question of why some countries are more attractive for foreign direct investment (FDI) than others by constructing a composite measure that describes a host country's attractiveness for receiving FDI. This index considers all identified major, measurable and, for our scope,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045687
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Capital flows and economic growth in the era of financial integration and crisis : 1990 - 2010
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Park, Donghyun - 2011
, portfolio investment, equity investment, and shortterm debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging …. Finally, the relationship between growth and short-term debt is nil before the crisis, and negative during the crisis …. -- Capital flows ; economic growth ; FDI ; portfolio investment ; equity investment ; short-term debt ; financial integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009316233
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Capital Flow Types, External Financing Needs, and Industrial Growth : 99 Countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … negatively associated with growth during the mid 1990s. The magnitudes of the negative effect of surges in portfolio debt inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122429
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Capital Flow Types, External Financing Needs, and Industrial Growth : 99 countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … negatively associated with growth during the mid 1990s. The magnitudes of the negative effect of surges in portfolio debt inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461431
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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 - This version: November 15, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376718
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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251655
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Capital flows : catalyst or hindrance to economic takeoffs?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … probability. Higher stock of short term external debt has been associated with a substantial negative effect on the probability of … a takeoff, and the effect of the short terms debt overhang is largest for Latin American countries. Yet, virtually all …
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