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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010
In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
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Is the Source of FDI Important to Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Japanese and U.S. FDI
Kim, Wi Saeng - 2016
This paper takes the position that technology transfers associated with foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) are an important determinant of economic growth in developing countries. The paper also posits that technology transfers, ceteris paribus, depend on the attributes of FDI providers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004373
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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (ttip): impact and correlation analysis based on trade and investment between turkey and eu, and the usa
Dural, Betül Yüce; Jahangir, S. M. Rashed - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 5 (2018) 2, pp. 33-52
The main objective of this study is to ascertain the importance and necessity of Turkey, based on trade and investment … - Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) and Turkish Statistical Institute - from 2001 to 2016. To obtain vibrant … is a strong positive correlation between Turkey’s total foreign trade and its export to and import from EU and the USA …
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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
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Public Pension Plans and Inflation in the United States and Other Selected Jurisdictions
Brown, Alex; Firzli, M. Nicolas J.; Franzel, Joshua M. - 2022
Public pension funds are, by far, the world's preeminent asset owners, with more than $ 25 trillions in combined assets. The largest pension funds are found in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK ("pension superpowers"). How they are managed, their funding...
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Financial frictions, foreign direct investment, and growth
San Vicente Portes, Luis - 2010
This paper assesses the role of financial frictions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on an economy´s growth rate, business cycle volatility, and firm´s capital structure. We gauge these effects within the Financial Accelerator framework, where entrepreneurs can establish affiliates of local...
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Revised U.S. Deep Seabed Mining Policy Reflects UNCLOS and Other International Environmental Law Obligations
Kogan, Lawrence A. - 2013
This article questions the extent to which U.S. continental shelf seabed mining policy, as reflected in the U.S. administration's recently issued five-year OCS development plan and accompanying agency regulations, is influenced by international environmental law, especially the deep seabed...
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The Decline of Manufacturing in the U.S. Economy : Impacts of China's ‘Trade Shock’, Trump's Protectionist Tariffs, and the Drivers of Manufacturing Job Losses (Presentation Slides...
Wind, Serge L. - 2017
The long-term declining role of manufacturing in the U.S. economy – reflecting a shift of the economy after World War II to a post-industrial orientation with an increased emphasis on services – was accelerated by the effects on manufacturing jobs and trade deficits of President Reagan's...
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International Market Entry by U.S. Internet Firms : An Empirical Analysis of Country Risk, National Culture, and Market Size
Rothaermel, Frank T. - 2015
We study international market entry in the context of the Internet, and ask: On what basis do U.S. Internet firms choose the markets that they enter? Our baseline hypothesis is that international market entry decisions are based on balancing perceived risks and returns inherent in a foreign...
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Real convergence, financial markets, and the current account : emerging Europe versus emerging Asia
Herrmann, Sabine; Winkler, Adalbert - 2008
Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...
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