This paper revisits the institutional determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) using a comprehensive new data … set on the regulations that govern FDI in more than 80 countries. It exploits the presence of confirmed zero investment … with actual inflow of investment. These results are found to be robust to different specifications …

This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA …