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Foreign direct investment and regional inequality : a panel data analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2012 - This version: November 2012
Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth. Coun-tries try to attract mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687189
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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
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 … on growth are substantial in the late 1990s for a number of countries. The effect of debt inflows on growth in the 2000s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009272052
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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality : A Panel Data Analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2013
Foreign direct investments (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth. Countries try to attract mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089164
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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 … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430093
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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 … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376718
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Tourism and economic growth in the Pacific region : evidence from five small island economies
Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh; Stauvermann, Peter - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 3, pp. 894-921
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323686
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Foreign direct investment and regional inequality in China
Wei, Kailei (contributor); Yao, Shujie (contributor);  … - 2008
solution to reduce regional inequality. However, it is difficult to reconcile the positive effect of FDI on economic growth … regional growth differences in China. However, it suggests that FDI cannot be blamed for causing regional inequality; it is the … uneven distribution of FDI instead of FDI itself that has caused regional growth differences. The key policy issue is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793553
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116678
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The Impact of Economic Freedom on the Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment in the Baltics
Rožāns, Edgars - 2017
In our increasingly globalized economy, global competitiveness of countries and means to measure it gain increasing significance, for which one the biggest motivating forces is ability to improve chances for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), which in turn is a very substantial factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963458
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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality in China
Wei, Kailei - 2007
One downside effect of rapid economic growth in China has been the ever rising inter-regional inequality. Foreign … effect of FDI on economic growth with its potential 'negative' effect on regional inequality. Using the largest panel dataset … FDI has been an important factor of economic growth in China. It also suggests that it is the uneven distribution of FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728800