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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals

Svensson, Roger - 2020

In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC market is the most important for Swedish firms and it is during the last decade that EC has undergone major changes. This paper uses a unique data set on individual Swedish MNCs for...

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How Well Does Foreign Direct Investment Measure Real Investment by Foreign-Owned Companies? : Firm-Level Analysis

Leino, Topias - 2017

We study Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a measure of real investment (gross fixed capital formation) in foreign …-owned companies. Our data include firm-level information on FDI in-flows and real investment of foreign-owned companies located in … Finland. Our results suggest that the recorded annual inflows of FDI do not constitute an accurate measure of annual real …

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The Role of Multinational Companies Investing in Oil Exploration and Extraction in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to present the role of multinational companies in general then its role in Sudan with particular emphasis on oil exploration and extraction. Chinese companies of multi-nationalities currently control the newly born oil industry in the country. Needless to say that...

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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment : The Case of Developing Countries

Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2013

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies … over the period 1990–2010, the results suggest that FDI outflows negatively impact the rate of domestic investment …

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How Well Does Foreign Direct Investment Measure Real Investment by Foreign-Owned Companies? – Firm-Level Analysis

Leino, Topias - 2014

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The Globalization of US Business Investment

Wynne, Mark A. - 2011

This paper documents some key facts about foreign direct investment flows by U.S. businesses overseas and foreign businesses in the United States. We show how the pattern of flows has evolved, examine the sources and destination of these flows, document associated employment and productivity...

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Horizontal multinational firms, vertical multinational firms and domestic investment

Namini, Julian Emami; Pennings, Enrico - 2009

We build a dynamic general equilibrium model with 2 countries, horizontal and vertical multinational activity and endogenous domestic and foreign investment. It is found that horizontal multinational activity always leads to a complementary relationship between domestic and foreign investment....

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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals

Svensson, Roger - 1993

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Corruption and foreign direct investment : what kind of relationship is there?

Caetano, José Manuel; Caleiro, António - 2005

countries. Recent studies suggest that corruption negatively impacts on FDI and may act as a disincentive to investment. By … using information for 97 countries, concerning inward FDI performance and perceived level of corruption, this paper intends … to analyse how corruption influences on the FDI. Given that a certain level of perceived corruption can, in fact, be …

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Sharing the Experience of Diaspora Investment Governance : Lessons from a Chinese Island Economy

Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2014

This paper explores the dynamic of investment governance from the perspective of Diaspora investment governance in an island economy in China. It is not a study of investment governance as understood in the conventional developed sense. The study took place in a system absent of business angel,...

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