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Estimating the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows : How Important are Sampling and Omitted Variable Biases?

Kinoshita, Yuko; Campos, Nauro - 2007

of foreign investors during the 1990s. Using dynamic panel estimation on data for transition economies, we find that low …

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Understanding German FDI in Latin America and Asia : a comparison of GLM estimators

Camarero Olivas, Mariam; Montolio, Laura; Tamarit … - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/19, pp. 1-18

The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense academic and policy-oriented interest for its determinants. Despite the gravity model being considered a useful tool to approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a...

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Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Offshoring : The Interplay of Complexity, Organizational Design, and Experience

Larsen, Marcus M.; Manning, Stephan; Pedersen, Torben - 2012

This study investigates estimation errors due to hidden costs — the costs of implementation that are neglected in …, we find that decision makers are more likely to make cost-estimation errors given increasing configuration and task … orientation towards organizational design in the offshoring strategy reduce the cost-estimation errors that follow from complexity …

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On the estimation and forecasting of international migration : how relevant is heterogeneity across countries?

Brücker, Herbert (contributor); … - 2005

This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than … period 1967-2001. Our results suggest that the choice of an estimation procedure has a substantial impact on the parameter …

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