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This paper investigates the determinants of sustained accelerations in goods and services exports. Strong predictors of export takeoffs include domestic and structural indicators such as lower macroeconomic uncertainty, improved quality of institutions, a depreciated exchange rate, and...
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of tourist arrivals, the trade openness ratio, economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), and carbon dioxide (CO2 … causalities running from: (i) renewable energy to CO2 emissions and trade; (ii) tourism to trade and FDI; and (iii) economic … energy, tourism, FDI, trade, and emissions. Thus, renewable energy and tourism are in a strong long-run causal relationship …
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We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI … FDI - both inflows and outflows - and growth. The relationship between growth and equity flows is smaller and less stable …
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types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
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of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …. Although FDI appears to be an important channel in the diffusion of technology models theoretically, empirical evidence related … to the effect of FDI on growth is ambiguous. By applying the approach of Ben-David (1996), which focuses on convergence …
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This paper examines how capital account liberalization (CAL) affects Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. The … Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries from 1985 to 2009. Their findings reveal that the positive impact of CAL on FDI … policies to attract FDI to the region. The authors also find that foreign investors value the quality of institutions more than …
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inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … commodity terms of trade. Average level of FDI inflows is associated with a 23 percent higher takeoff probability relative to a … zero FDI inflow benchmark, and this effect is highest for the Latin America subsample, with a 65 rise in takeoff …
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inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … commodity terms of trade. Average level of FDI inflows is associated with a 23 percent higher takeoff probability relative to a … zero FDI inflow benchmark, and this effect is highest for the Latin America subsample, with a 65 rise in takeoff …
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We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries …, unlike their negative impact on the average manufacturing growth rate. FDI inflows exhibit a positive association with … in need of external financing. -- external finance dependence ; portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows …
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of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …
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