The paper deals with the impacts of Export-platform FDI on backward linkages. First, in a three-country model, these impacts can be explained through competition effect and demand creation one. Whenever the former is stronger than the latter, the investment has a negative impact on backward...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the export-platform foreign direct investment as a strategic behavior of multinational firms. First, we use a three-country model to identify the main location factors of this investment. These factors are relative labor cost between the host country and...

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Überflutungen in Vietnam und Thailand und nutzt dabei Langzeit-Messungen von Haushalts-Wohlfahrt sowie einen externen Flut-Indikator, welcher lokale Überflutungen mittels NASA Satellitenbildern – den MODIS Near Real Time Global Flood Water (MFW) –...

Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Efficiency-inducing tax credits for charitable donations when taxpayers have heterogeneous behavioral norms -- Chapter 3. Trade Liberalization and Profit Tax Reform Under Oligopolistic Vertical Trade -- Chapter 4. Properties of the Production Possibility...