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Foreign Direct Investment, Business Start-up Regulations, and Entrepreneurship in Africa

Munemo, Jonathan - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 1-13

This paper investigates how foreign direct investment (FDI) and its interaction with business start-up regulations affect entrepreneurship in a sample of African countries. Preliminary findings obtained from longitudinal data analysis suggest that the complementarity between FDI and...

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Growth and project finance in the least developed countries

Cour, Lisbeth F. la; Müller, Jennifer - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 77-103

This article examines the effects of project finance on economic growth in the least developed countries (LDC). Inspired by the neoclassical growth model we set up an econometric model to estimate the effects of project finance for a sample consisting of 38 of the least developed countries using...

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The regional variation of foreign direct investment in Poland

Kacperska, Elżbieta - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 14 (2014) 29

In this paper, an analysis of foreign direct investment in terms of regional differences was conducted. The analysis covered the period 2005-2013. The analysis shows that the distribution of investors in Poland is varied regionally. Regions particularly attractive for foreign investors were...

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The spillover effects of outward foreign direct investment on home countries: evidence from the United States

Tang, Jitao; Altshuler, Rosanne - Saïd Business School, Oxford University - 2015

Most studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers focus on externalities of inward FDI to host country firms. However, spillovers may also be generated from outward FDI and flow to home country firms. We test for the presence of spillovers from U.S. multinational corporations to...

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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...

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Deep Trade Policy Options for Armenia: The Importance of Trade Facilitation, Services and Standards Liberalization

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - In: Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries:Insights …

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. They find that a DCFT A with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but … are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards harmonization …

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Trade Policy Options for Chile: The Importance of Market Access

Harrison, Glenn W.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - In: Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries:Insights …

“additive regionalism”—negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading partners. Taking Chile … trade diversion costs. Due to preferential market access, however, additive regionalism is likely to provide Chile with … gains that are many multiples of the static welfare gains from unilateral free trade. At least one partner country loses …

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Regional Impacts of Liberalization of Barriers against Foreign Direct Investment in Services: The Case of Russia's Accession to the WTO

Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - In: Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries:Insights …

assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on the regions of Russia. The model allows for foreign direct …

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Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: Modeling “real” households with endogenous productivity effects

Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - In: Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries:Insights …

Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. We incorporate all 55,098 households from the Russian …

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Trade, Exchange Rate, and Energy Pricing Reform in Iran: Potentially Large Efficiency Effects and Gains to the Poor

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - In: Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries:Insights …

Iran is committed to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five Year Development Plan. It started, however …

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