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Institutional quality similarity, corruption distance and inward FDI in Turkey

Eren, T. Mesut; Jiménez, Alfredo - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 20 (2015) 1, pp. 88-101

In this paper we investigate the impact of institutional differences as a determinant of Turkish FDI inflows from OECD economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when...

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FDI, international trade and union collusion

Buccella, Domenico - 2010

This paper deals with firms' decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms' strategies are affected by the scale...

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Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business

Corcoran, Adrian; Gillanders, Robert - 2012

This paper examines the effect that a country's business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that firms face when operating in a country. Several interesting results emerge....

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Lessons from investment policy reform in Korea

Nicolas, Françoise; Thomsen, Stephen E.; Bang, Mi-hyun - 2013

As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a reformist government to sell the idea of reform to...

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FDI and domestic investment : an industry-level view

Arndt, Christian; Buch, Claudia M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2007

Previous empirical work on the link between domestic and foreign investment provides mixed results which partly depend on the level of aggregation of the data. We argue that the aggregated home country implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) cannot be gauged using firm-level data....

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Is human capital losing from outsourcing? : evidence for Austria and Poland

Lorentowicz, Andzelika; Marin, Dalia; Raubold, Alexander - 2005

Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division...

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Competition for natural resources and the hold-up problem

Hefeker, Carsten; Kessing, Sebastian - 2016

We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to the provision of local resources. In the case of...

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A note on labor productivity and foreign inward direct investment

Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 1999

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is not only a transfer of capital, but a complex bundle of capital and firm-specific assets like production and management know-how. In particular, the transfer of production know-how improves overall productivity of FDI-receiving firms and to some extent also...

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Empirical analysis of demand for roof tiles : example of Tondach company

Hoso, Jasmin - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 61-70

In a very dynamic and volatile business environment, multinational companies view the intra-company exchange as a factor of developing the enterprise’s capacities and total revenue growth. The paper is aimed at performing econometric evidence of the total revenues of “Tondach” company,...

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The correlation between the internationalization processes and performance of firms : the case of emerging market firms of the BRIC countries

Ficici, Aysun; Wang, Lingling; Aybar, C. Bulent; Fan, Bo - 2014

In this empirical study we examine the correlation between the internationalization processes and financial performance … the internationalization - performance curve and explore the differences on effectiveness of the sectors. Our sample data … coefficient for FSTS are negative and for FSTS 2, positive. This result confirms the previous theories that financial performance …

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