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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows

Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - 2012

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo...

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More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? Not a bit!

Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010

We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...

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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows

Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-1, pp. 1-53

raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source …

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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows

Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - 2012

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Tax incentives and the location of FDI: evidence from a panel of German multinationals

Buettner, Thiess; Ruf, Martin - 2005

cross-border location decisions. In accordance with Devereux and Griffith (1998) we find that the marginal tax rate has no … predictive power for location decisions whereas effective average and statutory tax rates exert significant effects. In … particular, the statutory tax rate has strong predictive power for the likelihood of direct investment holdings at a location …

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International financial competitivenessand incentives to foreign direct investment

Jochem, Axel - Deutsche Bundesbank <Frankfurt, Main> / … - 2008

In this paper an index of financial competitiveness is calculated that corresponds to themarket-to-book ratio of inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable inflation rates and registeredpatents have a positive impact...

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BRAIN DRAIN WITH FDI GAIN?FACTOR MOBILITY BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERNEUROPE

De Simoney, Gianfranco; Manchin, Miriam - Centre for Comparative Economics <London> - 2008

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration mayfavour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct in-vestments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a specic channel through which the possi-ble "diaspora...

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Firm heterogeneity, foreign direct investment and the hostcountrywelfare: Trade costs vs. cheap labor

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2007

Whether higher productivity of the foreign firm increases host countrywelfare depends on whether the reason for foreign direct investment (FDI) is to savethe trade cost or to get the advantage of cheap labor. We show that, if the reason forFDI is to get the advantage of cheap labor, higher...

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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Service Sector: A Systematic Approach

Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>

It is commonly alleged that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the service sector haspositive consequences for the domestic labor market. This paper shows that this widelyaccepted view does not generally hold...

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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’smanufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI can affectdomestic firms. I use instrumental variables...

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