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We study empirically the impact of social indicators on growth in the context of FDI and trade. In this article, we … argue that the positive growth effects of FDI and trade arise from factors such as knowledge spillovers or technological … upgrading. Therefore, the effect of FDI and trade depends on the structural and sectoral investment composition, which depends …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the way in which the world is divided into different 'legal traditions', in order to understand the actual establishment of a ranking of the various legal systems, as it is used as a powerful device for global governance, directed to mould policy projects of...
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China has become one of the leading recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). Meanwhile, an increasing share of … global FDI is going to many Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). What is the relationship between the inward FDI … CEECs each exist in its own regional production network, with no linkage between FDI flows into China and into CEECs; (2 …
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China has emerged as one of the world's leading recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). Meanwhile, the … FDI of China and the CEECs? We conceptualize the relationship according to three alternative paradigms: 1) China and the … CEECs each exist in its own regional production network, with no linkage between FDI flows into China and into CEECs; 2 …
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contracting company to perform the service) or foreign direct investment (FDI, opening an Indian subsidiary and hiring Indian … employees). Modern FDI theories predict that Indian software outsourcing should occur primarily in the form of FDI. Contrary to … the FDI theories, however, many U.S. companies are hiring Indian software contracting companies in order to use the lower …
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Published as an article in: European Economic Review, 2008, vol. 52, issue 1, pages 1-27.
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In recent decades, financial liberalization has been one of the most important strategies for Asian countries to promote growth. However, debate emerges following several financial crises on whether liberalizing financial markets and allowing for free access to international capital markets,...
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(FDI), which in turn is a very substantial factor for increasing prosperity. One of the ways to measure it is by comparing … standards across the world. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of economic freedom on the attraction of FDI in … freedom in the economically homogenous Baltic states with their attracted foreign FDI over the years, it becomes evident that …
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We test whether foreign demand matters for local house prices in the US using an identification strategy based on the existence of 'home bias abroad' in international real estate markets. Following an extreme political crisis event abroad, a proxy for a strong and exogenous shift in foreign...
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