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FDI promotion through bilateral investment treaties: More than a bit?
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2008
order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273152
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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Hefeker, Carsten; Busse, Matthias - 2005
The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using different econometric techniques for a data sample of 83 developing countries and the period 1984 to 2003, we identify those indicators that matter most for the activities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295448
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FDI Promotion through Bilateral Investment Treaties More Than a Bit
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2008
order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … previously unpublished dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301432
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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
global patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). Compared to previous studies, we use bilateral FDI positions with a much … suggested by theories on FDI determinants. We find the gravity model to achieve the best theory-consistent out …-of-sample prediction, particularly when parameter heterogeneity of South and North FDI is allowed for. Controlling for surrounding market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605229
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FDI Promotion through Bilateral Investment Treaties: More Than a Bit?
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103190
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Subsidy Competition in Integrating Economies
Albornoz, Facundo; Corcos, Gregory - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2005
Regional integration affects location decisions of MNCs and therefore influences each member country’s provision of investment incentives, which in turn may trigger relocation. As a consequence, subsidy competition increases as integration proceeds. We analyze the welfare consequences of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086722
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FDI Promotion through Bilateral Investment Treaties More Than a Bit
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008
order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … previously unpublished dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565041
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976098
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976106