The financial needs of corporations are generally met by borrowing in financial markets and equity participation of investors. In a similar way countries are able to obtain necessary external financing through international loans or by attracting foreign direct investment. In the case of...

The persistent debt crisis of mayor LDC-borrowers has led to various proposals on how to ease or even solve these problems. Most suggestions have in common that they concentrate on restructuring the old loans and suggest approaches to higher future lending . These proposals are based on the...

The persistence of the.international debt crisis has given rise to considerations that foreign direct investment (FDD should play a larger role in the financing of less developed countries (LDCs) in the future. FDIs may provide external financing for developing countries even in times when new...

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...

Liberalisierung der Finanzmärkte und Ersparnisbildung in Indonesien Insbesondere für Entwicklungsländer, die im Ausland bereits hoch verschuldet sind, ist es dringend erforderlich, vermehrt inländische Ersparnisse zu mobilisieren und die Effizienz der heimischen Entwicklungsfinanzierung zu...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum...

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...