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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities

Matías Batalla, David de - 2016

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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2012

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

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FDI and Growth in East Asia : Lessons for Indonesia

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...

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Does the explanatory power of the OLI approach differ among sectors and business functions : evidence from firm-level data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2015

The relevance of services FDI strongly increased over the last two decades. As services and goods differ with respect to important characteristics, one may expect that the determinants of internationalisation are not identical in services and manufacturing. Surprisingly, there is practically no...

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...

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Thoughts on the demise of FDI

Davies, Ronald B. - 2019

This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational corporations will play in the future.

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The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations : an introduction

Harms, Philipp; Wacker, Konstantin - 2019

This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations. It summarizes the contents of the five papers included, and relates them to the recent litera-ture on the subject.

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Financial development and FDI inflows in China

Khan, Hameed; Khan, Umair - 2019

In this paper, the authors revisit the nexus of financial development and FDI inflows in Chinese perspective, incorporating the vital role of institutional quality and other important variables in this paradigm. Using ARDL bound testing and VECM procedures, they establish causality by exploiting...

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Does foreign direct investment in financial services induce financial development? : lessons from emerging economies

Podikkalathil, Jithin; Manalaya, Suresh Babu - 2019

The authors employ panel Vector Error Correction Models (VECM) and cointegration framework to identify the existence and direction of the causal association between foreign direct investment (FDI) in financial services and financial development for 26 emerging economies for the period 2003-2015....

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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs : a structural approach

Lapatinas, Athanasios - 2015

This paper provides a different perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4672 Belgian firms observed between 2003 and...

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