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foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption. The prevailing literature has produced confused and contradictory results on … this vital relationship due to errors in their measurement of corruption which are correlated with FDI inflows. When a less … procedures in Vietnam. The prevalence of corruption, however, is not associated with inflows of FDI. On the contrary, one measure …
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The study provides new evidence on the effect of financial openness on FDI inflows in Nigeria using data that span the … significantly related to FDI inflows, but its interaction with political regime is positive and significant. This suggests that the … effect of liberalization of capital accounts on FDI inflows is regime-dependent: the more democratic the government is, the …
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The foreign direct investment (FDI) towards the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) opens to us a … entries, the CEECs attracts now important volumes of FDI. Many governments from these countries offer important incentives to … attract more FDI, being motivated by the positive effects expected to rise on the local economy. But the flows of FDI received …
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We examine the determinants of FDI stocks of 'old' EU-members in ten accession countries. Our partial adjustment … labour costs, we find institutional development to be a robust determinant of equilibrium FDI stocks. The adjustment towards … equilibrium is rapid. The relationship between FDI and the privatization process is complex. Non-direct privatization schemes …
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How important are agglomeration economies for the location of foreign manufacturing plants? We investigate this question by combining innovations from previous studies and by taking advantage of a quasi-experimental setting: the political and economic transition in Romania. The recent, sudden...
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In Central and Eastern Europe, outward foreign direct investment was not yet until recently a prominent factor in the region's reintegration into the world economy, especially when compared to trade liberalization in the early 1990s or inward foreign direct investment in the late 1990s. In the...
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The process of liberalization of international trade and of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has constituted a broadly … accepted trend during the last few decades and FDI inflows have expanded constantly since the end of the 1980's. However, signs … of a certain crisis of the positive and one-way attitude towards international trade and FDI exist nowadays. The increase …
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The aim of this study was to ascertain the growth effects of capital inflows using investment as a transmission channel between the periods 1981 to 2016 in Nigeria. The study employed the least square regression method to analyse the data. The outcome of the research indicates that capital...
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internationalizing through FDI …
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This paper investigates the process of developing and implementing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and industrial parks in Russia. Governments commonly use SEZ policies to develop and diversify exports, create jobs, and launch technology and knowledge sharing. The industrial cluster concept is...
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