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New productivity drivers : revisiting the role of digital capital, FDI and integration at aggregate and sectoral levels
Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus on the impact of capital accumulation and structure. The analysis confirms an especially important role of ICT and intangible digital capital for productivity growth,...
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Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Smith, Matthew; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512034
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Corporate Taxes and Foreign Direct Investments : An Impact Analysis
Okafor, Anthony - 2020
We investigate the effects of corporate taxes on the flow of foreign direct investments (FDI) in Nigeria between 1983 … Correction Model (ECM). The coefficient of determination (R2) showed that about 77 percent of the systematic changes in FDI are … Added Tax, and Custom and Excise Duties have a significant but negative relationship with FDI. In contrast, Tertiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093178
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Interactions between global value chains and foreign direct investment : a network approach
Adarov, Amat - 2021
global value chains (GVC) and foreign direct investment (FDI). The analysis reveals that both FDI and GVC networks have a … Germany. Simultaneous equation model regressions using three-stage least squares suggest that FDI centrality facilitates GVC … centrality of countries. However, FDI centrality is driven to a large extent by the FDI statutory restrictions and tax offshore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589359
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Functional specialisation in EU value chains : methods for identifying EU countries' roles in international production networks
Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2022
flows and one based on FDI flows - detailed profiles of the functional specialisations of EU member states are identified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359012
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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 … FDI flows via two different entry modes-greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162287
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Finance-specific factors as drivers of cross-border investment : an OLI perspective
Forssbaeck, Jens (contributor); Oxelheim, Lars (contributor) - 2008
-financial firms’ international acquisitions. Controlling for traditional firm- and target-country-specific FDI determinants within an …-border investment. We conclude that without explicit consideration of the financial dimension, firms’ FDI decisions cannot be properly … understood. -- FDI ; OLI ; cross-border acquisitions ; cost of capital ; financial strategy ; financial variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756998
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Determinants of FDI location in Egypt : empirical analysis using governorate panel data
Hanafy, Shima'a - 2015 - This version: 7 January 2015
We empirically analyse the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Egypt employing a novel panel … dataset of 26 Egyptian governorates for the period 1992 - 2008. Using the case of Arab FDI to Egypt, we also investigate … whether FDI location determinants are different depending on similarity of culture and language between FDI source and host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510133
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Patterns of foreign direct investment in Egypt : descriptive insights from a novel panel dataset at the governorate level
Hanafy, Shima'a - 2015 - This version: 4. February 2015
This paper describes the main characteristics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Egypt using an unpublished dataset … for FDI in 27 Egyptian governorates covering the period 1972 - 2009. Special attention is given to the geographical … distribution of FDI, both as an aggregate and at the sectoral level. The paper is the first article of a larger empirical project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510136
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Determinants of Chinese direct investments in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Schüler-Zhou, Yun; Schüller, Margot - 2015
This paper analyses the determinants of Chinese direct investment (DI) in the European Union (EU). Evidence is based on panel Poisson models drawing on two investment monitors for individual projects. We distinguish between the numbers of greenfield investments (GIs) and mergers and acquisitions...
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