Objective - The purpose of this study is to investigate both "technology" and "knowledge" effects of foreign direct …

regimes over foreign investment in China. The first implication focuses on the function of land tenure as a critical, if not … the single most important, input to foreign direct investment in China. The second implication meanwhile addresses how the … legal regimes would affect the prospect of foreign banks in China's rural economy …

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …

This paper explores the existence of partisan cycles in foreign direct investment performance. Our theoretical model … predicts that the incumbent government's partisanship should affect foreign investors' decision to flow into different sectors … sample of OECD countries reveals a pattern of foreign investors' response to partisan cycles consistent with the predictions …

capital infl ows from aging industrialized economies. However, many of these countries deter foreign investors by a high risk … of creeping or outright expropriation. In this paper we explore whether the correlation between countries’ demographic … potential determinants of expropriation risk, the ratio of young to old workers has a positive effect on the perceived security …

expropriation. Not surprisingly, it turns out that the risk of expropriation decreases with a larger employment share of high … Lohndifferenz zwischen Hoch- und Geringqualifizierten und somit der Verteilungskonflikt zwischen den Gruppen. …