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Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment : is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?
Ohemeng, Williams; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Agyapong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-25
The study explores the influence of environmental risk (macroeconomic uncertainty and environmental sustainability risk … outcomes show that higher level of uncertainty in GDP growth, inflation uncertainty and financial development volatility induce … more FDI inflows whilst uncertainty in exchange rate adversely impacts FDI inflows in SSA. The paper highlights how …
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Uncertainty, optimal specialization and growth
Di Maio, Michele; Valente, Marco - 2006
We present a novel argument demonstrating that when trade is characterized by uncertainty the comparative advantages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328594
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Uncertainty, Optimal Specialization and Growth
Di Maio, Michele - 2007
We present a novel argument demonstrating that when trade is characterized by uncertainty the comparative advantages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729579
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Vulnerability and Natural Disasters in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Kyrgyz Republic
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
This paper analyses vulnerability in Fiji, the Kyrgyz republic, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. In incorporating measures of vulnerability there is no major departure from the perspective of MDG1 Analyses of vulnerability, like that in the present paper, emphasize the fact that the debates around...
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Uncertainty and Growth Disasters
Jovanovic, Boyan; Ma, Sai - 2020
This paper documents several stylized facts on the real effects of economic uncertainty. First, higher uncertainty is … an increase in uncertainty is highly nonlinear and asymmetric. Third, higher asset volatility magnifies the negative … impact of uncertainty on growth. We develop and estimate an analytically tractable model in which rapid adoption of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048844
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A note on uncertainty due to infectious diseases and output growth of the United States : a mixed-frequency forecasting experiment
Salisu, Afees A.; Gupta, Rangan; Demirer, Rıza - In: Annals of financial economics 17 (2022) 2, pp. 1-9
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Spatial estimation of the nexus between the PRC's foreign direct investment and ASEAN's growth
Uttama, Nathapornpan Piyaareekul - 2016
Forging closer economic relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over the last 2 decades has contributed to building a stronger ASEAN economy. It is particularly important to know how the PRC's foreign direct investment...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth : an empirical analysis of different effects in less and more developed countries
Brenner, Thomas - 2014
This paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on national economic growth with the help of GMM panel regressions. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs as well as innovation activities are distinguished. Furthermore, less and more developed countries as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303758
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FDI and economic growth : the role of natural resources
Hayat, Arshad - 2014
In the paper, I explored links between inflow of FDI, natural resource abundance and economic growth. The paper is an attempt to analyze a lager sample of 106 countries and investigate the impact of FDI inflow on the economic growth of the host country. Further, natural resource abundance is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461224
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In search of growth effects by inward FDI in Central East Europe
Brezinski, Horst; Stephan, Johannes; Zieschank, Olivier - 2012 - Very early draft
With systemic change in Central East European countries (CEECs), foreign direct investment (FDI) became an important factor for the transition economies. FDI not only played a leading role in privatisation in most transition countries. FDI is also widely assumed to spur restructuring in terms of...
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