for Argentina in the period 1875-2006. There are two conclusions: a) the welfare cost of Argentine risk has been huge: for …

regions: Argentina, Venezuela, Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya and Zambia. We conclude that neopatrimonialism is a valuable …

, a deterrent for foreign investors, this does not exclude the possibility that a high incidence of (certain) crimes may …

The focus of this article is the empirical identification of factors influencing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in …-industry linkages such as specialization and agglomeration economies are relevant factors for the location decision of foreign investors …

While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is … only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the …-determine the foreign-owned affiliates' performances in a significant way. Moreover, the intensity of the impact depends on the …

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much … negative way about downsizing foreign than domestic firms. The slant is present in all quality newspapers, but it increases …