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empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank's choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …
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There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign … its relevance well before globalization became a hotly debated issue. …
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globalization. We apply correlation and regression analyses in order to test this proposition for German direct investments in … Globalisierung nachhaltig verändert haben. Diese These wird am Beispiel der deutschen Direktinvestitionen in Entwicklungs- und …
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The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and using land prices to measure their aggregate effects,...
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The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper … lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational …' activities in the analysis of the globalization process. …
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that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …
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stands for incomplete globalization. It is shown that the gap has steadily declined for most countries over the sample period …
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Globalization seems to have diminished the importance of geographical distance. However, empirical studies find that …
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This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First, FDI is analyzed on a sectorally and regionally disaggregated level. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the...
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Surges and reversals of short-term foreign liabilities are often held responsible for instabilities in international financial markets. Yet, empirical evidence on the factors determining the maturity of capital flows is scant. This paper analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German...
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