International tax competition is generally framed as states competing for foreign direct investment (FDI), and analyses … of the phenomenon draw heavily on FDI statistics. In and of themselves, however, FDI statistics are merely a … fragmentation of the firm” to distinguish between five categories of FDI: manufacturing affiliates, shared service centers, R …

This paper investigates the role of cultural proximity (CP) on greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI). We build a … bilateral trade in cultural goods to proxy for asymmetric and time-dependent CP. We revisit the existing supply …/origin-side theories of bilateral FDI to derive a gravity equation suited for testing the impact of both directions of asymmetric CP. To …

This paper investigates the role of asymmetric cultural proximity (CP) on greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI … broad notion of CP. We revisit the existing supply/origin-side theories of bilateral FDI to derive a gravity equation suited … econometric analysis confirms a positive role of asymmetric CP as a determinant of Greenfield FDI. Moreover, it suggests a …

on foreign aid with a similarly coded dataset of FDI project locations, to employ a quasi-experimental, spatial …-temporal, identification strategy that evaluates if the location of foreign aid projects presages later FDI. The paper develops theoretical … expectations about how foreign aid can attract FDI via signaling or functional mechanisms. The paper also investigates if different …

policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income … interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of …

We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. A … of initial FDI. Whether or not a cooperative structure is also coordinated turns out to be crucial in predicting FDI … behaviour. This has further implications for the optimal FDI incentives of potential host countries and for how empirical …

after formally choosing free trade as their development strategies, in a more general fashion than the existing tariff …

after formally choosing free trade as their development strategies, in a more general fashion than the existing tariff …

importance of trade in intermediate goods in assessing trade-FDI linkages …We develop a partial-equilibrium model for analyzing the effect of trade barriers and their removal on the level of … imports of intermediate goods tends to stimulate FDI, while lowering barriers to imports of competing goods tends to …