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FDI in Selected Developing Countries: Evidence from Bundling and Unbundling Governance
Asongu, Simplice - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 8 (2019) 2, pp. 161-188
The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the … period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for …
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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising: Application to the case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-42, pp. 1-134
Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...
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Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Kersting, Erasmus - In: Journal of International Business Studies 50 (2019), pp. 923-947
The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a channel through which international convergence in standards of living may be achieved. One important effect of FDI is its impact on wages, both within...
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Foreign direct investment, productivity and the technology gap in African economies
Malikane, Christopher; Chitambara, Prosper - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 61-74
This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative backwardness in a panel of 45 African countries over the period 1980-2012. We use two measures of relative backwardness, namely: the distance from technological frontier and the...
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Firm size distortions under duopoly
González-Maestre, Miguel; Peñarrubia, Diego - In: Estudios de Economía 44 (2017) 2, pp. 157-172
, this paper contributes to the analysis of the welfare distortions due to these regulations. In the context of a duopoly …, our results show that social welfare is not monotonic with the regulatory threshold. In particular, we obtain the … paradoxical result that a policy decision of increasing the threshold might involve a dramatic decrease in welfare in some markets …
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Fusiones horizontales de empresas y estrategias de diferenciación de producto
Méndez Naya, José Antonio - In: Estudios de Economía 44 (2017) 2, pp. 173-184
. In this context, it is proved that a merger could be welfare enhancing by increasing both consumers surplus and merging …
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Competition and innovation in markets with technology leaders
Tsao, Ku-Chu; Mukherjee, Arijit; Ray, Achintya - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
presence of more firms may reduce welfare. …
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Oligopoly price discrimination, competitive pressure and total output
Aguirre, Iñaki - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-52, pp. 1-16
This paper extends the traditional analysis of the output effect under monopoly (third- degree) price discrimination to a multimarket oligopoly. The author shows that under oligopoly price discrimination, differences in competitive pressure, measured by the number of firms, across markets are...
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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-1, pp. 1-54
In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a...
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Growth and project finance in the least developed countries
la Cour, Lisbeth F.; Müller, Jennifer - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 77-103
This article examines the effects of project finance on economic growth in the least developed countries (LDC). Inspired by the neoclassical growth model we set up an econometric model to estimate the effects of project finance for a sample consisting of 38 of the least developed countries using...
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