This paper studies how transport infrastructure investments affect a bidding war for a firm between two asymmetric countries within a region in a context of imperfect competition, where transport infrastructure investments play the role of a global public good, leading to a reduction in the unit...

China's programme for inter-regional economic connectivity, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), will develop new trade routes and production chains linking predominantly developing world economies with the Chinese market, making a unique contribution to global economic development but disrupting...

Öffentliche Investitionen in Infrastrukturprojekte sind aus der politischen Diskussion nicht mehr wegzudenken, und es wird Außerordentliches von diesen Investitionen erwartet. Zuletzt wurde das durch die global aufgelegten Konjunkturprogramme deutlich, die im Zuge der Weltwirtschaftskrise...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively examine the influence of formal and informal institutional differences on enterprise investment margin, mode and result. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on 2,440 micro samples of large-scale outbound investment from 609...

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