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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND PUBLICPRIVATE PARTNERSHIP : A BETTER APPROACH FOR INVESTORS?
Vaupot, Zoran - 2021
The aim of this research is to analyze the influence and propose arguments for using the PPP framework for FDI projects … barriers to FDI, relations between FDI, cultural heritage, PPP, project and country risk management.Then, four business cases … of FDI in connection to cultural heritage are presented and evaluated through the lens of the previous theoretical …
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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
this "diaspora capital". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165988
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Why don't labor and capital flow between young and old countries?
Calahorrano, Lena; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2009
In this paper we investigate the twofold effect of demographics on international factor flows in a model with endogenous policy constraints on both foreign direct investment and migration. Factor price differences between industrialized and developing countries create economic incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889091
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345004
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347125
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787347
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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From Blind Spots to Hotspots : How Knowledge Services Clusters Develop and Attract Foreign Investment
Manning, Stephan - 2011
This paper explores local and global dynamics underlying the development of knowledge services clusters, which we define as new geographic concentrations of technical talent and service providers offering upstream technical and knowledge-intensive business services to regional and global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133184
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Foreign Investment and Construction of Railroads in Colombia : The Panama Railroad Co. (1850-1903)
Correa, Juan Santiago - 2012
The mid-nineteenth century set the stage for one of the most successful process of foreign investment in Latin America and particularly in Colombia, at least from the perspective of foreign investors: the construction and operation of the Panama Railroad Co. However, unlike other similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115108
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Heterogeneous Labor Mobility, Capital Flow, and Subsidy Competition
Chen, Ching-mu - 2011
To examine the effects of heterogeneous labor mobility on the distribution of industries and analyze the subsidy policy for attracting firms, this paper develops an analytically solvable new economic geography model, which incorporates heterogeneous locational preferences and an intra-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119673