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This paper focuses on analysing how Chinese firms operate in Latin America, Asia and Africa in regard to ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards and sustainability issues. How do they respond to the increasing global value chain requirement to incorporate and maintain ESG standards?...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of FDI. We use a new data set covering greenfield and expansion projects at a detailed value chain level to examine which factors influence the decision to invest abroad. Our empirical framework is an augmented gravity model that incorporates elements of...
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While an abundance of studies exists documenting the significant wage premium of multinationals (MNE) and the effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) on wage inequality, much less is still known about how foreign ownership affects the gender wage gap of employees in firms. Based on...
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cheaper cost, better technology, employment generation, and upgraded technology transfer, scope for more trade, linkages and …
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restrictions (increasing since 2016). Restrictive policies are growing in trade policy choices. This paper investigates the effects …
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services trade. For the time being, the information on the balance of payments relating to March shows a net borrowing position …
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In this paper we analyse the effect that the euro has had on trade using a gravity model for 28 countries and covering … potential complementarity or substitution relationship between FDI and trade by including FDI inward and outward stocks in the … of the EMU on trade and reveal the existence of a complementary relationship between trade and FDI …
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This paper considers how input market liberalization affects host country productivity spillovers from multinational corporation (MNC) investments. The standard “Backward Linkage” measure used to estimate technology and learning spillovers to local upstream suppliers — pioneered by...
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As a highly open or trade dependent economy, Malaysia has become very vulnerable to global market sentiment. The recent … slowdown in external demand, the trade exposure to China and uncertainties over the trade policies of the United States, lower … contrary to the long history of trade and strong surpluses recorded in the current account. The resilience and global …
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This paper seeks to empirically examine the validity of nexus between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and poverty reduction in the context of twelve European transition and post-transition countries divided in two regions, between 2000 and 2015. The empirical analysis investigates whether some...
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