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Does investment liberalization in developing economies affect FDI decisions differently across individual firms? To …
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-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper … endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general equilibrium framework to contribute towards filling this gap. Our economy …. The analysis finds that, contrary to widely-shared perceptions, the short-run effects of FDI-friendly policies on the …
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We assess drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle … established. First, for both contemporary and non-contemporary specifications, while determinants for gross FDI are significant …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as …
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We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
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The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for … Net FDI. Secondly, the significance of the governance dynamics in increasing order of magnitude are general governance …
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assesses the impact of free market institutions on a country's inward foreign direct investment (FDI) performance. We find that … a free market institutional system in a host-country is a factor that attracts inward FDI to emerging Asian economies by …
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Previously reported effects of institutional quality and political risks on foreign direct investment (FDI) are mixed … cent increase in FDI, which is substantially larger than the effects of any other dimensions of institutional quality … simultaneously controlled for in our empirical models of FDI inflows. This evidence is consistent with the predictions of a standard …
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Panel Causality Tests were utilised to address the objective of the study. Consequently, the empirical results show that FDI … one-way feedback which runs from FDI to economic growth. Based on these findings, this study recommends among others that … more foreign investment-oriented policies that would catalyse further attraction of FDI inflows into their economies. …
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The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for … Net FDI. Secondly, the significance of the governance dynamics in increasing order of magnitude are general governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157121
Tax treaties between countries influence how much tax revenues governments receive from multinational enterprises. These treaties often reduce the withholding tax rates on outgoing dividend and interest payments. We provide illustrative estimates of costs for these two taxes for 14 developing...
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