The paper explains the negative correlation between developing countries' per capita incomes and measures of political risk by relating a government's decision to tax foreign investors to distributional interests in the host country's population. Using a dynamic general-equilibrium model in...

This paper studies the relevance of political stability on foreign direct investment (FDI) and the relevance of FDI on economic growth, in three panels. The first panel contains 11 very small economies; the second contains five well-developed and politically stable economies with highly positive...

Wissenschaftler untersuchen seit langem den Einfluss institutioneller Faktoren des Gastlandes auf Standortentscheidungen multinationaler Unternehmen für ausländische Direktinvestitionen (FDI). In dieser Studie wird die Beziehung zwischen zwei institutionellen Faktoren, Demokratie und...