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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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Growth E ffect of FDI in Developing Economies : The Role of Institutional Quality

Jude, Cristina - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries. As we consider institutional heterogeneity to be an explanation for the mixed results of previous empirical studies, we develop several arguments to show that institutional...

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Determinants of FDI inflows in advanced economies : does the quality of economic structures matter?

Dellis, Konstantinos; Sondermann, David; Vansteenkiste, … - 2017

This paper investigates the role of economic structures as determinants of FDI inflows. We expand on the existing literature by focusing on advanced economies, using a newly available measure of FDI which cleans the data from statistical artefacts, such as financial round tripping, and by...

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Do FDI and institutional quality affect the economic growth of local governments across Vietnam? : insights from Bayesian modeling

Oanh Kim Thi Tran; Duong Binh Mai; Trang Thanh Thi Chu; … - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 31 (2023) 2, pp. 1-11

This article aims to analyze the role of FDI and institutional quality in local economic growth in Vietnam. Using a dataset of 63 provinces in Vietnam between 2005 and 2020, the result of the Bayesian linear regression method cover that FDI has a negative effect on economic growth, while...

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Institutions, Corporate Governance and Capital Flows

Mukherjee, Rahul - 2016

Countries with weaker domestic institutions hold fewer foreign assets and exhibit concentrated corporate ownership. An equilibrium business cycle model of international capital flows with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and insiders explains both phenomena. Investment...

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Institutions, Culture Distance, and FDI Location Choice : Evidence from China

Du, Julan; Tao, Zhigang; Lu, Yi - 2009

Using an extensive data set on foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) in the Chinese mainland, we compare the sensitivities of the location choice of foreign direct investment (FDI) from six major source countries/areas (Hong Kong, Taiwan, US, EU, Japan and Korea) toward the variation in the...

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Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Drábek, Zdeněk - 2001 - Manuscript date: August, 2001, First Draft

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the GATS/Telecom Agreement. This is done by looking at the guiding principles for negotiating market access for foreign investors, by comparing the Agreement with the Telecom Agreement under NAFTA and by discussing the merits of the multilateral approach...

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Capital inflow surges and consequences

Ghosh, Atish R.; Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed - 2016

While capital flows to emerging markets bring numerous benefits, they are also known to create macroeconomic imbalances (economic overheating, currency overvaluation) and increase financial vulnerabilities (domestic credit growth, bank leverage, foreign currency-denominated lending). But are all...

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Nowhere Left to Hide? Stock Market Correlation, Regional Diversification, and the Case for Investing in Africa

Moss, Todd J. - 2013

index. Sub-Saharan Africa is also part of this trend, but is a notable laggard. For instance, in 2010 the correlation with … Africa). Additionally, correlations among African markets are generally very low. While there remain barriers to exploiting … this trend, Africa's integration lag may present opportunities for investors seeking regional diversification — and …

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Conditional Pricing of Currency Risk in Africa's Equity Markets

Kodongo, Odongo - 2014

In this paper, we sought to establish whether Africa's volatile currencies drive equity risk premia. We use the SDF … also find evidence that international investors are worried about Africa's small size equity markets and build anticipated …

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