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Infrastructure endowment and corporate income taxes as determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central- and Eastern European Countries
Bellak, Christian; Leibrecht, Markus; Damijan, Joze P. - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2007
This paper analyzes the importance of taxes on corporate income and production-related tangible infrastructure as … the infrastructure endowment. In the empirical analysis we control for a possible interrelation between taxes and … infrastructure as determinants of FDI ?an issue usually neglected in the literature. Thus, we posit that there are likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163373
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Seeking New Ways of Financing the EU Budget: on the Proposal of a European Tax on Foreign Exchange Transactions
Richter, Sandor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2008
absence of experience, predictions about the effect of and revenues from a taxation of foreign exchange transactions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129439
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Romania and foreign direct investment
Ciobanu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Thanks to a level of growth in foreign investment, the gap is narrowing between Romania and other East European countries like the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, countries normally considered the preferred choice of foreign investors. In the last years, Romania has become a more appealing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835460
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More Intra-Region Direct Investment through Economic Integration? Modelling the Experience of the EU’s Single Market
A. Haller, Stefanie - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 427-456
I apply the fixed versus variable cost trade-off associated with a multinational firm’s choice between investing abroad and exporting to a setting where the multinational is located inside an economically integrating region. I find that reducing obstacles to investment unambiguously favours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421206
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Transborder corporate integration in the Baltic Sea Region
Kuznetsov, Alexey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper examines flows of foreign direct investment within the Baltic region. The author demonstrates close investment ties among the EU members, which are of special importance for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Transborder corporate integration in the region is characterized by significant...
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THE FUTURE OF FDI IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: MESSAGES FROM NEW EU MEMBER STATES
Penev, Slavica; Rojec, Matija - In: Economic Annals 59 (2014) 202, pp. 43-68
governance, and sectoral reforms in energy, infrastructure, capital markets, and private equity; (ii) in terms of the governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011120349
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The impacts of PTA formation on small economies’ tax competition for FDI inflows
Kim, Sang-Kee; Kim, Minseong; Kim, Young-Han - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 6, pp. 2734-2743
This paper examines why small economies are so eager to form or join preferential trade agreements (PTAs), as observed in the East Asia and the Central Europe, taking consideration of the strategic impacts of PTA formation on tax competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Based on...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer, and Productivity Growth in Transition Countries Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Torlak, Elvisa - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2004
Many governments offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is generally perceived as the best channel for technology transfer, not only across national boundaries but also between firms – in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954303
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German FDI and Integration of Production in the EU
Keller, Dietmar; Jungnickel, Rolf - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957367
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North American Integration and Canadian Foreign Direct Investment
Waldkirch, Andreas; Tekin-Koru, Ayca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate how economic integration in North America has altered the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) to and from Canada. The theoretical analysis suggests that while the Canadian-U.S. free trade agreement should generate less FDI, the addition of Mexico in the North American Free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529228