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The Impact Of Regulatory Stringency On The Foreign Direct Investment Of Global Pharmaceutical Firms

Ahlering, Beth - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

Cross-national regulatory differences in safety, price and intellectual property protection are an inherent feature of the operating environment of the global pharmaceutical firm. Institutional, transaction cost and more recent ‘race to the bottom’ theories assume that regulation represents...

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The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Lessons from the Argentine Wine Industry

Dermott, Gerald Mc - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Through a comparative, longitudinal analysis of the wine industry in two Argentine provinces, this article examines how different political approaches to reform shape the ability of societies to build new institutions for economic upgrading. The article finds that inherited structural factors...

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The effect of corruption on foreign direct investment in natural resources : A Latin American case study

Cruz Luzuriaga, Manuel; Sedai, Ashish Kumar - 2021

This study looks at the relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in natural resources using … a panel of 20 Latin American countries from 1995-2019. We find that lower levels of corruption have a positive and … significant impact on resource FDI supporting the grabbing hand hypothesis. A one-point increase in the Corruption Perception …

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Managing, Manipulating and Manuevering Biology in the Early 21st Century : Reflections on Discursive Practice, Empirical Events and Power in Pursuit of Bio-Commerce

Dorsey, M. K. - 2005

This paper reviews and offers a meta-analysis of more than a decade of literature that explicitly considers both bioprospecting and biopiracy. I do so with a judgment sample of the literature, primarily from American academic writing in English and with some sources from Latin American...

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Legislative Malapportionment and institutional persistence

Bruhn, Miriam; Gallego, Francisco; Onorato, Massimiliano - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2010

This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for predemocratic elites to preserve their political power and economic interests after a transition to...

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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America

Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - 2007

Living in a democratic society has been internationally recognized as a basic human right. While most of the literature tries to identify the effect of democracy on economic prosperity, little work has been done to understand the determinants of economic growth under democracy. This paper...

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Political Regimes and Economic Growth in Latin America

Albornoz, Facundo; Dutta, Jayasri - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2007

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FDI attractiveness in Latin America

Aramayo, Lourdes Gabriela Daza - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

This paper focuses on the identification of the variables determining the attractiveness of foreign direct investment in Latin America, represented by 17 countries over a period of time from 1996 to 2011. It considers variables traditionally not taken into account, such as the tax rate and...

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The effect of exchange rate volatility on international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries along "one belt and one road"

Latief, Rashid; Lefen, Lin - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-22

The 'One Belt and One Road' (OBOR) project was started by the Chinese government with the aim of achieving sustainable economic development and increasing cooperation with other countries. This project has five major objectives, which include (i) increasing trade flow, (ii) encouraging policy...

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Determinants for Foreign Direct Investment in the Baltic Sea Region

Nikula, Nuutti; Kotilainen, Markku - 2013

We have defined the Baltic Sea Region as consisting of the following countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. We investigate foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from 1995 to 2010 to these countries econometrically. We use two basic models:...

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