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The research delves into the determinants of inward FDI to Colombia in the context of economic integration promoted by … the country more attractive to foreign direct investment (FDI), in a framework of fiscal discipline and a stable economic … environment for economic growth, albeit characterised by complex institutional conditions. Government reforms have revitalized FDI …
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In 1970, the countries of the Andean Common Market (the Andean Pact or ANCOM), adopted uniform foreign investment regulations. The Andean Foreign Investment Code, as Decision 24 of the Andean Commission is called, regulates both the treatment of foreign capital entering or within ANCOM, and...
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This analysis focuses on studying whether four significant trends in Latin America may be important determinants of FDI … as significant incentives or deterrents to FDI in the Latin American region, this empirical analysis uses a baseline … model that includes a set of control variables identified in previous empirical analyses as important determinants of FDI in …
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI … is of capital importance. We investigate the FDI-growth nexus in LA allowing for different source countries, regional … heterogeneity, interaction terms with FDI, and more than 20 growth determinants. We use Bayesian Model Averaging to address model …
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This paper seeks to examine the determinants of FDI into Latin America with an aim to make policy recommendations to … boost FDI into the region. Using data for 17 Latin American countries for the period from 1990 to 2013 and two-way fixed … FDI. The results suggest that infrastructural development, human capital and good governance play crucial roles in …
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One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards...
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intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented … the enforcement of BITs in fostering intra-regional FDI. We observe heterogeneous impacts within the bloc: BITs exert a … positive but small effect, with an estimated increase in FDI stocks between 4-7.25%, for middle income countries such as …
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of tourist arrivals, the trade openness ratio, economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), and carbon dioxide (CO2 … causalities running from: (i) renewable energy to CO2 emissions and trade; (ii) tourism to trade and FDI; and (iii) economic … energy, tourism, FDI, trade, and emissions. Thus, renewable energy and tourism are in a strong long-run causal relationship …
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One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818445
This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation. For this, an applied general equilibrium model integrating trade,...
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