The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches to property rights protection and empirically examines it in the context of FDI flows to the Middle East and Northern Africa region (MENA).Using panel data on 11 MENA countries for the period 1991-2007 and adopting feasible...

Literature notes many factors as affecting capital flows, but the effects of these flows over the recipient economies and the overall effect over growth are highly debatable. This study claims that although capital flows may be required for the increase in output, other forces are causing this...

International capital flows are strongly influenced by country-specific patterns that can be best understood in historical and comparative perspective. A long-term empirical analysis of French and German investment in Spain reveals that the core capabilities of foreign firms and their relations...

Globally, investments in physical and human capital have been identified to foster real economic growth and development in any economy. Investments, which could be domestic or foreign, have been established in the literature as either complements or substitutes in varying scenarios. While...

The study is conducted to analyse the impact of foreign direct investments on domestic investment in Cote d'Ivoire. To this end, annual time series data for the period of 1975-2018 is used. The model is based on the theoretical model of Agosin and Mayer (2001).The study employs the differenced...

We examine the determinants of foreign real estate investment relative to the domestic case using the portfolios of a large sample of publicly traded real estate investment companies; where foreign investment is defined as the property owner headquarters being located in a different country than...

This case study explores and engages the strategic importance of china Pakistan economic corridor having based on $46 billion investment. The project is expected to bring about flood of opportunities not only for the two main players but other nations which are found to be interested in making...

An overview of the investments made by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), defined as the region encompassing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia. The analysis considers all investments made by the funds as of the end of July...

An inquiry into the potential political risks associated with the investment activity of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It starts with an analysis of the importance of the GCC SWFs in terms of their global investments. It then analyzes the main directions of these investments,...

This chapter encapsulates the most recent findings on sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment activity globally. The key research proposals addressed herein relate to the position of global SWFs among conventional and alternative asset managers, SWF allocation strategies, their recent investment...