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corruption. Adverse interactions between politics, business and law enforcement generate obstacles for the rule of law and remain …
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States often bargain over objects that affect their future bargaining power. A large territory, for example, is not only valuable in itself, but also as a source of raw material, population and defense. As a result, states not only try to maximize their benefits when they negotiate over the...
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economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality …. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when they come from countries with low differences in corruption with Turkey …. Conversely, FDI flows are negatively affected when there exists a large difference in corruption between the investing country …
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resource-rich countries, the decision of host governments to expropriate these investments, and the level of corruption. Higher … production. Moreover, resource production leads to high levels of corruption. Our theoretical results are confirmed by … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …
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resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the …
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This paper examines the data on international capital flows to developing economies for the period 1970-2006. Besides the most aggregate group of all developing countries, developing world is categorised with respect to five regions (Developing Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and...
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to 2017Q4. Findings show that terrorism adversely affects FDI inflow to telecommunication sector, while corruption … the war against terrorism and strengthening of relevant anti-graft agencies to adequately fight corruption in Nigeria in …
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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 …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …
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