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The Composition of International Capital Flows: Risk Sharing Through Foreign Direct Investment

Albuquerque, Rui - EconWPA - 2004

Evidence on international capital flows suggests that foreign direct investment (FDI) is less volatile than other financial flows. To explain this finding, I model international capital flows under the assumptions of imperfect enforcement of financial contracts and inalienability of FDI....

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Private Sector Debt in CESEE EU Member States

Lahnsteiner, Mathias - In: Focus on European Economic Integration (2013) 3, pp. 30-47

The crisis has recalled that private sector indebtedness may constitute a core macrofinancial vulnerability. In some … countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE), risks stemming from indebtedness materialized in the form of … shows the high relevance of this issue. We present s ystematic cross-country information about the indebtedness of the …

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Size and dynamics of debt positions in Belgium and in the euro area

Bruggeman, A.; Nieuwenhuyze, Ch. Van - In: Economic Review (2013) I, pp. 57-77

The current financial crisis has once again shown that the inherent pro-cyclicality of lending can trigger financial cycles with a potentially substantial impact on the real economy. Against that background, the article analyses the size and dynamics of the debt ratios of the various...

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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Future EU Member States in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe

Souza, Lucio Vinhas de - EconWPA - 2004

States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial … mature market economies, reduces cyclical volatility both in the short and in the long run. Weak indications are found that …

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Latin America: The Missing Financial Crisis

Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The current episode (2007-09) may well be the first time since Latin America gained its independence in the early 1800s that a major economic contraction and financial calamity in the industrialized world has not caused a wave of currency, sovereign debt or banking crises in the region. What...

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THE IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ON INDEBTEDNESS AND STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATION – A CASE STUDY

Student, Oana-Adriana Duţă Ph.D; Student, Simona … - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2010) 15S, pp. 7-10

using indebtedness and profitability indexes as well as stock exchange quotations, and taking into account the data provided …

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN HOTEL CHAINS OF THE SPANISH TOURISM SECTOR

GONZÁLEZ, Carmen; JAREÑO, Francisco - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 14 (2014) 2

used in the sector and, subsequently, carry out an analysis of four key financial variables: percentage of indebtedness …

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Currency Union and Foreign Direct Investment Inflow: Evidence from Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Adam, Anokye M. - In: SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business 63 (2013) 1-2, pp. 121-132

This study investigates the effect of currency union membership on foreign direct investment inflow to ECOWAS subregion. The study employed panel dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) to estimate a panel data of fifteen ECOWAS countries from 1995 to 2010 with the framework of the gravity model....

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Testing for Causality between the Foreign Direct Investment, Current Account Deficit, GDP and Total Credit: Evidence from G7

Akbas, Yusuf Ekrem; Senturk, Mehmet; Sancar, Canan - In: Panoeconomicus 60 (2013) 6, pp. 791-812

In this study, countries were analyzed between 1990 and 2011 in order to determine whether a causal relationship exists among current account deficit, GDP, foreign direct investment, and total credits of G7. Analysis took into account the cross-sectional dependence and was applied to test the...

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The internationalisation of production: moving plants, products, and people

Riess, Armin; Uppenberg, Kristian - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2004

Introducing this volume of the EIB Papers and linking the various contributions, this paper emphasises that the internationalisation of production in Europe, which creates cross-border production networks, is an increasingly important element of globalisation, has been spreading to new EU...

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