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An Introduction to Theories of National and Regional Economic Development
Coccia, Mario - 2019
This conceptual paper analyses the concept of development that is a process of progressive growth that generates a transition from simple to complex system. In economics, development is a multidimensional process that generates changes in economic, political, social and institutional structures...
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A Pareto-Improving Compensation Rule for Investment Treaties
Aisbett, Emma - 2020
Investment treaties currently address two conceptually distinct economic problems. The first is dynamic inconsistency of host state policy – i.e. the possibility that a host state will offer attractive conditions to new foreign investment and then renege on the bargain once the investment has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850950
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Global Competitiveness and Capital Flows : Does Stage of Economic Development and Risk Rating Matter?
Athari, Seyed Alireza - 2018
This paper closes a gap in the relevant literature by investigating the role of a country's competitiveness on international capital mobility using robust panel multiple regressions with fixed and random effects. In this study, we use the Global Competitiveness Index to measure a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915105
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Capital fundamentalism and structural transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
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Trade Liberalization and Foreign Direct Investment : An Applied General Equilibrium Model for Costa Rica
Abrego, Lisandro - 1999
This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation. For this, an applied general equilibrium model integrating trade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192531
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When is FDI a capital flow?
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow … find that the financing choice is driven by managerial incentive problems and that FDI involves an international capital …
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Taxation and the multinational firm
Egger, Peter; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017
This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...
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Function or Signal? 1st Party or 3rd Party? Local Aid and Foreign Direct Investment
Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895794
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Internal migration, remittances and economic development
Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023
We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated...
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Foreign capital inflow and its welfare implications in a developing country context
Mukherjee, Rudrarup - 2017
In a small open developing country context, the author considers a three-sector general equilibrium framework and tries to find out the effects of foreign capital inflow on welfare of the country. Comparative-static results show that foreign capital inflow widens the skilled-unskilled wage gap...
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