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Location of foreign direct investment in vertically related markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2013
less developed, FDI is always welfare-enhancing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707619
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Trade Cost, Technology Licensing and Foreign Direct Investment
Mukherjee, Arijit; Suetrong, Kullapat - 2006
differ in technologies. Whether lower trade cost increases welfare is ambiguous, and depends on its effects on FDI. We also … show the impacts of technology licensing on FDI and welfare. Licensing substitutes FDI, and the effects of lower trade cost … are ambiguous on the home country welfare and the host country welfare in presence of licensing. Whether, for a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055480
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FDI in selected developing countries : evidence from bundling and unbundling governance
Asongu, Simplice - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 8 (2019) 2, pp. 161-188
The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the … period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157121
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Influence of governance indicators on illicit financial outflow from developing countries
Abotsi, Anselm Komla - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 2, pp. 139-152
scrutiny of the quality of governance indicators that enhance the activities of these multinational companies. Therefore, this … study seeks to explore the influence of cross-country indicators of governance on the illicit financial flow from developing … Indicators and Worldwide Governance Indicators. The total number of developing countries included in the analysis is 139, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889211
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Drivers of FDI in fast growing developing countries : evidence from bundling and unbundling governance
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as … follows in increasing order of magnitude: general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409066
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FDI in selected developing countries : evidence from bundling and unbundling governance
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the … period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063760
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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496200
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Chapter 6. Putting Services and Foreign Direct Investment with Endogenous Productivity Effects in Computable General Equilibrium Models
Tarr, David G. - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 303-377). 2013
economics. The model shows that services liberalization yields welfare gains several multiples of the welfare gains obtained … from a constant to returns to scale model. Further, the welfare gains are supported by the econometric estimates of the … find that the projected welfare gains generated from liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment are about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025285
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? : the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011 - This version: November 15, 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376718
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816