This paper analyzes the association between tax complexity and foreign direct investments (FDI) based on the newly … complexity for FDI and thereby enhance prior literature, which has primarily focused on the costs of tax complexity …

This paper analyzes the association between tax complexity and foreign direct investments (FDI) based on the newly … complexity for FDI and thereby enhance prior literature, which has primarily focused on the costs of tax complexity. …

claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host country. We study this question using a comprehensive dataset of FDI … compensation claims against a host on inward FDI flows from BIT-partner and non-partner countries. Focusing on these differences … control for unobserved changes in the host-country investment climate. We find that BITs stimulate bilateral FDI flows from …

in the form of more transparent institutions and deeper reforms lead to more foreign direct investment (FDI). We use data … of FDI from the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea to various regions of China from 1990 to 2002. We … control for the standard determinants of FDI - regional market sizes, wage rates, human capital and tax policies. Then we add …

-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper … endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general equilibrium framework to contribute towards filling this gap. Our economy …. The analysis finds that, contrary to widely-shared perceptions, the short-run effects of FDI-friendly policies on the …

Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between … empirically the effect of different dimensions of distance on the choice between exports and FDI. We find that different … dimensions of distance affect exports and FDI differently. There is clear evidence of a proximity-concentration trade-off in …