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Product heterogeneity, intangible barriers & distance decay : the effect of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across different product categories

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. … - 2012

This paper empirically examines the heterogeneity in the effects of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across detailed product groups. Using finite mixture modelling on bilateral trade data at the 3-digit SITC level, we endogenously group product categories into an, a priori unknown,...

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Austrian outbound foreign direct investment in Europe : a spatial econometric study

Fischer, Manfred M.; Pintar, Nico; Sargant, Benedikt - 2016

The recent growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) has led to a proliferation of scholarly efforts to analyse the … economic effects of FDI inflows in the economy of the host countries, whereas the second studies the economic factors …/conditions in the host countries that pull in FDI flows. The purpose of this paper is to add to this latter dimension of the …

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The role of geography and institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces

Di Battista, Attilio - 2013

This paper describes the determinants of FDI location among Italian provinces, focusing on the role of market potential …

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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference

Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants … investment (VFDI) and horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI). Apart from data for conventional approaches to classify FDI … to companies without investment abroad. The results for the direct measures of FDI types confirm theoretical expectations …

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Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

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Banks' holdings of risky sovereign bonds in the absence of the nexus : yield seeking with central bank funding or de-risking?

Frey, Rainer; Weth, Mark - 2019

For the largest 55 German banks, we detect the presence of countercyclical yield seeking in the form of acquisition of high-yielding periphery bonds in the period from Q1 2008 to Q2 2011. This investment strategy is pursued by banks not subject to a bailout, banks characterised by high...

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