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How Well Does Foreign Direct Investment Measure Real Investment by Foreign-Owned Companies? – Firm-Level Analysis
Leino, Topias - 2014
​We study Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a measure of real investment (gross fixed capital formation) in foreign …-owned companies. Our data include firm-level information on FDI in-flows and real investment of foreign-owned companies located in … Finland. Our results suggest that the recorded annual inflows of FDI do not constitute an accurate measure of annual real …
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A Pair-Models Idea for FDI and Economic Growth in Romania
Andrei, Dalina - 2014
Studying correlation between foreign direct investments (FDI) and economic growth might be as generous idea as meeting … significant interrelation are FDI and economic growth, due to their similarly influential environments and complexity degrees of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058790
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Determinants of Chinese Direct Investments in the European Union
Dreger, Christian - 2015
This paper analyses the determinants of Chinese direct investment (DI) in the European Union (EU). Evidence is based on panel Poisson models drawing on two investment monitors for individual projects. We distinguish between the numbers of greenfield investments (GIs) and mergers and acquisitions...
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Investing Overseas Without Moving Factories Abroad : The Case of Chinese Outward Direct Investment
Huang, Yiping - 2015
Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) is unique in the sense that it starts in the early stage of economic development and does not move factories overseas. Empirical analyses using firm-level data confirm that the main purpose of Chinese ODI is to strengthen domestic production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024715
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The Impact of South-South Trade Agreements on FDI
Cherif, Mondher - 2015
The integration of emerging markets into the global economy is heavily promoted by foreign direct investment (FDI …) inflows. Within the factors driving the location of FDI, regional trade agreements (RTAs) become increasingly relevant for … emerging markets. We explore the impact of South-South trade agreements on FDI by dynamic panel models. The MENA countries are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024778
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The End of Cheap Labour : Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian - 2016
paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … direction of FDI inflows. By performing panel models with spatial effects for both Chinese provinces and developing ASEAN … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985666
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The End of Cheap Labour : Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian - 2016
paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … direction of FDI inflows. By performing panel models with spatial effects for both Chinese provinces and developing ASEAN … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986086
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Labour Market Regulations and FDI Inflows in Developing Countries – An Empirical Analysis
Negi, Vipin - 2018
What makes developing countries attractive for foreign direct investment (FDI)? Labour regulations are believed to be … one of the major factors determining the level of FDI inflows to the developing countries. In order to allure the foreign … relationship between labour regulations and the amount of FDI inflows to the developing countries. Based on analysis of data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917781
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Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
Fach Gómez, Katia - 2018
Economic experts indicate that the investment prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean are not positive. They attribute the general negative trend in Latin America to a set of factors such as the continued economic recession, falling commodity prices, higher currency volatility, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930463
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International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment as Growth Stimulators in Transition Economies : Does the Impact of Institutional Factors Matter?
Tsitouras, Antonis - 2018
The present paper develops a general production function framework, augmented with two institutional variables namely, bureaucracy and corruption, on 28 transition economies over the period 2000 to 2015. We use various econometric specifications and apply both the Fixed Effects as well as the...
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