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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? : the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011 - This version: November 15, 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
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Capital flows : catalyst or hindrance to economic takeoffs?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … probability. Higher stock of short term external debt has been associated with a substantial negative effect on the probability of … a takeoff, and the effect of the short terms debt overhang is largest for Latin American countries. Yet, virtually all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009270029
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Capital flows: catalyst or hindrance to economic takeoffs?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … probability. Higher stock of short term external debt has been associated with a substantial negative effect on the probability of … a takeoff, and the effect of the short terms debt overhang is largest for Latin American countries. Yet, virtually all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009272046
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Trade, FDI, and Global Imbalances
Li, Wei - 2020
We propose a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model to quantify the implications of trade and FDI liberalizations for the surge of global trade and current account (CA) imbalances. We calibrate our model to replicate the evolution of bilateral trade and FDI flows across 5 major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840844
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FDI and economic growth : a new look from the sectoral perspective
Šimić, Vladimir; Malešević-Perović, Lena - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 68 (2022) 4, pp. 1-11
This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in a sample of 10 ex-socialist European and Asian countries. While the link between FDI and economic growth has been extensively investigated in empirical literature, this paper contributes to this...
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International Investment Positions and Risk Sharing : An Empirical Analysis on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
Pericoli, Filippo Maria - 2012
By using data from nine waves of the IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey, we explore the determinants of bilateral portfolio investments and their dynamics. The main goal of our analysis is that of understanding whether a diversifi cation motive can be found, among the various...
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Globalization and environment in India
Marjit, Sugata; Yu, Eden Siu-hung - 2018
inability of citizens to cooperate and form effective lobbies. Preliminary calculations using data from the World Bank show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904484
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Wie beeinflussen die politische Lage und FDI das Wirtschaftswachstum? : Empirische Evidenz für die Ukraine und Polen
Levoshko, Tamila - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie der Wechsel der vertretenen Regierungspartei in der Region und die Absorptionsfähigkeit von FDI das regionale Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt auf regionaler Ebene für den Zeitraum...
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Interregionale Effekte des Wirtschaftswachstums in der Ukraine und Polen
Levoshko, Tamila - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie stark sich das Wirtschaftswachstum der räumlich benachbarten Regionen auf die Wachstumsrate einer Region auswirkt. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt für den Zeitraum 2004-2012 anhand des Instrumentalvariablenschätzers....
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