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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...
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Macroeconomic impacts of foreign exchange reserve accumulation : theory and international evidence
Fukuda, Shin'ichi; Kon, Yoshifumi - 2010
investment and economic growth. We provide empirical support for our theoretical analysis using panel data from the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003982936
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Enhancing foreign direct investment via transparency? : evaluating the effects of the EITI on FDI
Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013
The so called resource curse, the fact that countries rich in natural resources often show lower rates of economic growth compared to resource-poor countries, is commonly attributed to the low quality of governance in resource-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720219
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Does Corruption Matter for Sources of Foreign Direct Investment?
Belgibayeva, Adiya - 2018
The paper provides a cross-country empirical analysis of the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment flows …. The gravity model estimates suggest that if control of corruption in the destination country improves, investment flows … from cleaner countries rise more than they do from countries with a higher incidence of corruption. In certain cases, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928093
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The effect of COVID-19 on foreign direct investment
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2022
This study empirically examines how the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has impacted foreign direct investment (FDI), using the quarterly data on bilateral FDI flows from 173 home to 192 host countries from the first quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2021. We measure the severity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162287
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Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment?
Selaya, Pablo - 2012
The notion that foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) are complementary sources of capital is conventional among governments and international cooperation agencies. This paper argues that the notion is incomplete. Within the framework of an open economy Solow model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712758
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Unintended Consequences of U. S. Monetary Policy Shocks : Dutch Disease and Capital Flow Measures in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
Yépez, Juan F. - 2022
Dutch disease is often referred as a situation in which large and sustained foreign currency inflows lead to a contraction of the tradable sector by giving rise to a real appreciation of the home currency. This paper documents that this syndrome has been witnessed by many emerging markets and...
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Private Markets, Infrastructure and Venture Capital in the Post-COVID Era : The Pension Perspective
Weeks, David; Firzli, M. Nicolas J. - 2021
(intensifying Sino-American coopetition) and Datafied World Economy (Digitalization, Ai, Cybernetics), and Singapore is positioned …
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The financial role of East Asian economies in global imbalances : an econometric assessment of developments after the global financial crisis
I, Hyeon hun; Park, Donghyun - 2013
The central objective of this paper is to empirically assess how global imbalances have evolved since the global financial crisis of 2008/09. More specifically, we examine how the security investment positions of major East Asian economies in United States (US) financial markets - equities,...
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Inflow of Foreign Capital and Trade Liberalization in a Model with an Informal Sector and Urban Unemployment
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - 2014
The paper has made a modest attempt to analyze the effects of liberalized trade and investment policies on welfare and open unemployment in a developing economy in terms of a three sector Harris-Todaro (1970) type general equilibrium model. Following empirical evidence it is assumed that there...
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