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Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers from FDI in Latin American Countries

Mühlen, Henning - 2013

Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI spillovers - which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic are inconclusive and most studies focus on one...

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Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers from FDI in Latin American Countries

Muehlen, Henning - Institut für Entwicklungsforschung und … - 2013

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Firm-level productivity spillovers from FDI in Latin American countries

Mühlen, Henning - 2013

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On the location attractiveness of emerging countries for foreign direct investments

Belaşcu, Lucian; Shivarov, Aleksandar - In: Expert journal of economics 4 (2016) 2, pp. 78-85

Our paper investigates the FDI attracting potential of emerging markets by in terms of their location attributes. We use Statistical cluster analysis to study the dynamic evolution of emerging markets' clusters, based on country attributes that are relevant for the MNEs location decision. We...

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The determinants of high technology exports volume : a panel data analysis of EU-15 countries

Gokmen, Yunus; Turen, Ufuk - In: International journal of management, economics and … 2 (2013) 3, pp. 217-232

High technology exports (HTX) are considered as an important factor for sustainable economic growth for a country. One of the most important prerequisite to high tech manufacturing and export is technology ownership. Technology ownership can be gained through technology transfer by the way of...

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Technology Transfer, Foreign Direct Investment, Licensing and the Developing Countries’ Terms of Trade

Saadi, Mohamed - 2014

technology transfer, technology transfer via licensing and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the North–South terms of trade and …. Licensing or FDI allows the North to further extract surplus from the South. However, we cast doubt on Kojima–Ozawa propositions … advantage and production efficiency, its welfare gain depends on how much it needs to pay to the North via licensing or FDI. In …

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Theory and empirics of Markusen type multinationals

Uchida, Yoko; Oyamada, Kazuhiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Research on multinational firmsâ€™ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by...

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Domestic, vertical, and horizontal multinationals : a general equilibrium approach using the "knowledge capital model"

Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

One of the key factors behind the growth in global trade in recent decades is an increase in intermediate input as a result of the development of vertical production networks (Feensta, 1998). It is widely recognized that the formation of production networks is due to the expansion of...

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FDI and investment barriers in developing economies

Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Does investment liberalization in developing economies affect FDI decisions differently across individual firms? To address this question, we simulate the response of individual firms to reductions in investment costs across developing economies. We explore two policy experiments: elimination of...

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Political Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries : Does the Sector Matter?

Schulz, Heiner - 2009

This paper examines the effect of regime type on FDI flows to developing countries. Existing research has been inconclusive, with some studies finding a positive effect of democracy, others finding a negative effect, and still others finding no clear relationship between regime type and FDI....

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