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the presence of foreign investors is associated with changes in local corruption around foreign-owned production …
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presence of foreign investors impact the occurrence of petty corruption? If so, what are the main underlying mechanisms … analyze whether the presence of foreign investors is associated with changes in local corruption around foreign ]owned … corruption. In contrast, the results provide evidence that FDI affects corruption via norm transmission. …
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This paper empirically investigates the influence of corruption, bureaucratic quality and government stability on … period of 1985-2008. Owing to the long-term relationship with the host, absence of corruption and bureaucratic interventions … absence of corruption, honest public office holders, efficient bureaucracy and government stability for the foreign direct …
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to 2017Q4. Findings show that terrorism adversely affects FDI inflow to telecommunication sector, while corruption … the war against terrorism and strengthening of relevant anti-graft agencies to adequately fight corruption in Nigeria in …
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We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments (FDI). Starting out from the theory of FDI, we show … that corruption can have different effects on horizontal investments, which are primarily aimed at sales to the local …-level data, we find that corruption reduces the probability that a firm will invest in a country. Moreover, when studying the …
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This study looks at the relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in natural resources using … a panel of 20 Latin American countries from 1995-2019. We find that lower levels of corruption have a positive and … significant impact on resource FDI supporting the grabbing hand hypothesis. A one-point increase in the Corruption Perception …
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Corruption has a negative impact on foreign direct investment (FDI). However, transition economies show high levels of … corruption and also high levels of FDI. I argue that it is not the level but rather the type of corruption that affects FDI in … transition economies. Pervasive corruption, or corruption that is widely present, acts as a deterrent to FDI because it increases …
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of investment. The study used secondary data from the World Business Environment Survey conducted by the World Bank. In …. African leaders should therefore institute policies to control corruption in order to boost foreign investors’ confidence in …
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We find that new states are perceived to be more corrupt even though businesses do not report more bribery in newer states. This is suggestive of an unearned, and likely high, reputational cost to being a new state. These findings hold over a number of specifications that include additional...
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In this paper we develop a two country general equilibrium extension of the Stockman (1980)-Lucas (1982) equilibrium exchange rate model. This optimising framework gives us the opportunity to analyse the effect of foreign direct investment on trade and welfare of both the investor and the...
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