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Foreign Direct Investment, Non-traded Goods and Real Wages

Gilbert, John; Oladi, Reza; Beladi, Hamid - Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University - 2008

investment on the real wages of skilled and unskilled workers. We show that foreign direct investment increases the real wages of …

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Dynamic Effects of Foreign Direct Investment When Credit Markets are Imperfect

Gall, Thomas; Schiffbauer, Marc; Kubny, Julia - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2009

This paper argues that foreign direct investment in economies with credit market imperfections may increase their vulnerability to capital flow shocks. Due to better access to financial markets foreign firms can use different wage contracts than domestic ones. This alters the domestic wage...

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Debt versus Foreign Direct Investment: The Impact of Sovereing Risk on the Structure of Capital Flows to Developing Countries

Schnitzer, Monika - University of Bonn, Germany - 1995

In this paper we compare the two standard forms of international investments in developing countries, debt and foreign direct investment, form a finance perspective. It is shown that the sovereign risks associated with debt finance are generally less severe than the ones which come with FDI. FDI...

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The timing and the probability of FDI: an application to the US multinational enterprises

Brito, José Brandão de; de Mello Sampayo, Felipa - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002

An 'option-pricing' model is employed to analyse when a firm should expand its production capabilities abroad. In a framework where the firm's profits are determined by some average of the attractiveness of the home and foreign countries, and attractiveness in each country follows differentiated...

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The Tax Sparing Provision Influence: A Credit versus Exempt Investors Analysis

Azémar, Céline; Delios, Andrew - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007

This paper is concerned with the impact of tax sparing provisions on the location choices of multinational enterprises. Special attention is paid to the economic in°uence of tax sparing because the OECD proposal to reconsider the inclusion of this provision in bilateral tax treaties is highly...

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International Competition for Foreign Multinational Investment,

Haaland, Jan I.; Wooton, Ian - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 1998

We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide employment opportunities and generate demand for domestic intermediate inputs, produced by domestic workers with increasing returns to scale. Offering subsidies to...

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FDI and Labor Markets in General Equilibrium

Claro, Sebastián - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2005

domestic wages up, dampening the incentives for FDI flows. A general equilibrium model that emphasizes the joint determination … wages above autarky levels is more likely in large labor-abundant technology-backward countries or when the fixed cost of … foreign investment is low. Second, the conditions that depress autarky wages -technology differences and labor abundance- are …

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Valuation of Foreign Direct Investment in the Presence of Political Risk

Lee, B.C.; Powell, J.G. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 1999

Investments in a country are subject to risks stemming from the same political events and government policies. Therefore it is possible to construct a portfolio which mimics the income profile of a particular FDI project using assets with readily observable prices. This paper provides a general...

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Agglomeration economies: influence on the distribution of foreign investment in Chile

Suazo, Miguel Angel Quiroga - In: Estudios de Economia 29, 1 Year 2002, pp. 139-163

The purpose of this work is to empirically study the importance of agglomeration economies in the selection of geographical zones in which foreign investors are willing to develop their investment projects in Chile. For this purpose a discrete choice model, te conditional logit model (CLM),...

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SPANISH COMPANY FOREIGN MARKET ENTRY

Más, Francisco J.; Moreno, Felipe Ruiz - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2003

The aim of this paper is to analyse the determinants of diversification mode (acquisition versus greenfield) through foreign direct investment considering various theories, such as those of mergers and acquisitions, transaction costs, the learning organisation, the institutional context of the...

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