, where competing factors determine the choice of location of these investors. IFRS adoption, being one of the cardinal …, this paper investigates the extent to which IFRS adoption is able to at-tract FDI in the presence of this form of finance …. The main idea being that the effect of IFRS adoption on FDI may be adjustable depending on the presence of, and the kind …

This paper constructs a theoretical model to explain the relationship between IFRS adoption, FDI and foreign aid. Using … 92 countries for the period 2003-2012. Overall, IFRS adoption attracts more aid when conditioned on foreign aid; however …

We examine whether the 2005 mandatory adoption of IFRS is followed by an increase in cross-border acquisitions into the … adopting countries and whether the association is driven by IFRS per se or by concurrent enforcement changes. Using the … exogeneity of a firm's listing status to identify the effect of IFRS, we document a significant increase in cross …

add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants …

that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … sending and receiving countries. In a calibrated multi-country model, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with …

. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015+). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …