This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models …-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate … investors. Implications for policy are discussed. -- land acquisition ; large-scale agriculture ; foreign investments agro …

This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major … estimator that allows for unobserved heterogeneity and corrects for endogeneity. Third, we identify the causal effect of foreign … recipients. We establish that the effect of foreign aid on the various transition probabilities is heterogeneous and can be …