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Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica

Cornick, Jorge; Jimenez, Jorge; Román, Marcela - 2014

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic sector is created, with a board of directors comprising representatives from both the public and...

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The Role of Geography and Institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces

Battista, Attilio Di - 2013

(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime … statistical, economic and political institutions) and were elaborated in order to create specific indices. All together, they …

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Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment. Evidence from Central and Eastern European States

Amarandei, Cristina Mihaela - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 3, pp. 311-322

This paper examines the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment inflows for ten Central and Eastern European states. The paper attempts to answer the question: what is the role of corruption in attracting foreign direct investments? Using the data from UNCTAD for foreign direct...

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Tolerable level of corruption for foreign direct investment in Europe and Asia

Abotsi, Anselm Komla - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 269-284

In 2009, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developed countries experienced the largest decline among all regions and sub-regions. However, South, East and Southeast Asia showed the smallest decline among developing economies and remained the largest recipient of FDI inflows. Meanwhile,...

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Essays in International Finance

Daude, Christian - 2008

and the quality of host country institutions. Overall, we find that in particular FDI, and to some extent also loans, are … portfolio investment is by far the most sensitive to the quality of institutions.Chapter 3 focuses on a related topic to chapter … determinants of the location of FDI. While we find that better institutions have overall a positive and economically significant …

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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Tolerable level of corruption for foreign direct investment in Africa

Abotsi, Anselm Komla; Iyavarakul, Tongyai - In: Contemporary Economics 9 (2015) 3, pp. 249-270

Corruption has become endemic in many African countries and is difficult to eradicate completely; therefore, reducing corruption to a tolerable level that will not deter foreign investors must be the aspiration of all political leaders and stakeholders. This study tries to identify the level of...

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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

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Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions

Schneider, Sophie Therese; Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2020

In this paper, we empirically re-assess the question which theoretical models and motives are most suitable to explain global patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). Compared to previous studies, we use bilateral FDI positions with a much more comprehensive coverage of emerging and...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Quality of Institutions, and Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun - 2013

stronger IPR protection attracts more FDI in countries with small informal economies - i.e., strong institutions - but not in … countries with large informal economies - i.e., weak institutions. Our empirical analysis, based on a threshold effect model …

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