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Reform, FDI and Economic Growth : Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare
Merlevede, Bruno; Schoors, Koen J. L. - 2005
Our main interest is the impact of the choice of the speed of economic reform on economic growth. We estimate a system of 3 equations where economic growth, economic reform and FDI are jointly determined. We find that new reforms affect economic growth negatively but attract FDI, whereas the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066951
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A Multinational Analysis of Corruption and Economic Activity
Smith, Murphy - 2013
The relationship between corruption and economic activity is a complex one. The purpose of this study is to examine the … relationship in selected countries between level of corruption and economic activity, using data obtained from the Organization of … a ranking of countries according to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Examples of corruption activities include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090599
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Cultural and Political Embeddedness, Foreign Investment and Locality in Transforming Economies : The Case of ABB in Poland and China
Hardy, Jane; Currie, Frank; Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2008
The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047009
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Political Corruption and Private Investment : The Case of China
Grafstein, Robert - 2020
The institutionalization of private property rights promotes economic development. Political corruption, it is widely … increasingly corrupt, yet broke world growth records. We resolve this paradox by highlighting the way systemic corruption can … principal-agent model to study the mechanism by which systemic corruption's impact on political risk affects individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844262
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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?
Moers, Luc - 1999
Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300556
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The influence of subnational corruption on the conversion of foreign proprietorship : Stumbling block or lubricant? : evidence from Sino-foreign joint ventures
Liu, Ting; Huang, Ye - In: Asia Pacific journal of management 41 (2024) 1, pp. 135-170
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Foreign investments and institutional convergence in South-Eastern Europe
Kaditi, Eleni A. - In: International economic journal 27 (2013) 1, pp. 109-126
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Asymmetric effect of institutional distance : MNE subsidiaries' bribery in transition economies
Oh, Kyeungrae - In: International journal of multinational corporation strategy 1 (2016) 1, pp. 18-43
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Emerging Economies’ Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment
Groh, Alexander Peter - 2012
This paper uses a composite measure to examine why some countries attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) than others. The measure considers all identified, measurable, and comparable socioeconomic aspects that affect FDI decisions on an aggregated country level. As a result, we can rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116678
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Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Emerging Multinational Companies from Central and Eastern Europe : The Case of Visegrád Countries
Radlo, Mariusz-Jan - 2012
This paper summarizes a research project devoted to analyzing the development of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and emerging multinational companies from Visegrád countries: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. After several years of foreign direct investment inflows to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100768