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The Impact of Investment Policy in a Changing Global Economy : A Review of the Literature

Echandi, Roberto; Krajcovicova, Jana; Qiang, Christine … - 2015

Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....

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Does a Country Need a Promotion Agency to Attract Foreign Direct Investment : A Small Analytical Model Applied to 58 Countries

Morisset, Jacques - 2003

Establishing an investment promotion agency has become a central part of most countries' development strategies. Today there are more than 150 investment promotion agencies worldwide. Yet very little is known about what these agencies have been really doing, notably in emerging countries, and...

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Improving Russia's Policy on Foreign Direct Investment

Bergsman, Joel; Broadman, Harry G.; Drebencov, Vladimir - 2000

before World War II and prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s) still governs Russia. In this paradigm there are only two reasons …, or are aimed at penetrating protected local markets, not necessarily at world standards for price and quality. They … restrictions) inconsistent with the World Trade Organization agreement on trade-related investment measures (TRIMs), and make …

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Developing Economies and International Investors : Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring them Together?

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2012

Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment. Despite the importance of this question for public policy choices, little is known about the effectiveness of investment promotion efforts. This study uses...

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Converting and Transferring Currency : Benchmarking Foreign Exchange Restrictions to Foreign Direct Investment Across Economies

Anderson, John - 2013

The ease of converting and transferring currency is a crucial consideration for firms investing in a foreign economy. The Converting and Transferring Currency data and indicators measure foreign exchange restrictions most relevant for foreign direct investment across economies to identify common...

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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment

Pouget, Sophie - 2014

investment inflows and inflows per capita, the Doing Business 2013 Enforcing Contracts data, the World Bank Group's Governance … Indicators, the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Indicators, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency …'s World Investment and Political Risk data. The paper concludes by identifying several opportunities for improvement, such as …

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A BIT Far? : Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment - Evidence from Emerging Markets

Gomez Mera, Laura; Varela, Gonzalo - 2017

How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...

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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment Is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping

Aykut, Dilek; Kosmidou, Gina; Sanghi, Apurva - 2017

As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial transactions that are difficult to monitor and classify by the home and host countries. In some cases, what is classified as foreign direct investment is rather "indirect foreign...

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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil Is in the Details

Osnago, Alberto; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2015

Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...

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Credit Conditions and Foreign Direct Investment During the Global Financial Crisis

Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wei, Shang-jin - 2014

This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct...

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