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In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC …
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This paper studies the role of business sentiment in the decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) across European Union (EU) member states. Based on the knowledge-capital model, the study employs the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML)...
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, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour judicial system). Provinces with better access to neighbouring … subjects, fewer corruption episodes and lower presence of organized crime should also be associated with higher flows of FDIs … conducted adopting fixed effects methodologies (including a Mundlak procedure on a Negative Binomial random effects estimation …
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, ceteris paribus, corruption may yield differential effects on foreign investment in a group of central and eastern European … (CEE) countries depending on the level of business regulations, home-host corruption similarity or EU/OECD membership link … with corruption in the presence of business regulations and home-host corruption similarity, both of which may facilitate …
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investments. Furthermore, far too little attention has so far been paid to how corruption relates to the performance of foreign … firm performance. By using various econometric estimation strategies, we find that foreign owned firms tend to pay larger … should fight against informal payments in bureaucracy to create corruption free environments, so that multinationals are …
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This article concerns the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflow from India to Poland with some insights to other European countries. This topic strongly relates to globalization of foreign trade and especially new economic initiatives between European Union (EU) and India,...
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This study sheds light on the effect of restrictive policies, such as screening mechanisms, on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) flows into EU Member States in the period 2011-2018, by implementing an augmented gravity model. The results show that different restrictive measures affect cross-border...
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Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on existing literature by using firm-level data comparable...
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We develop and empirically test a model of foreign R&D investments that takes into account strategic interaction in R&D location decisions by multinational firms in the context of R&D spillovers and foreign technology sourcing strategies. In a two-country, two-firm model with cross investments,...
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In this paper we empirically test the role of firm-specific financial characteristics as drivers of international investment and production. We hypothesize that financial strength generates advantages that can be exploited through cross-border investment activity. The hypothesis is tested in a...
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