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Impacts Of Endogenous Bribes On Foreign Direct Investment: To examine the effects of corruption on foreign direct investment, the authors develop a cooperative Nash bargaining game to model the negotiation process between firms and corrupt officials. It is first analyzed a firm's decision to bribe corrupt officials either to pay smaller settlement fixed costs than legally prescribed ones...; Tags: Firm, Foreign Direct Investment, University Of North Carolina, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Taxes, Free Trade, Finance, Financial Planning; White papers 2003-03-01
The Impact Of Liberalizing Barriers To Foreign Direct Investment In Services: This paper employs a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization WTO, which incompasses improved market access, Russian tariff reduction and reduction of barriers against multinational service providers. The authors assumed that foreign direct investment in business services...; Tags: Barrier, University Of Colorado, Tariff, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2004-06-06
Foreign Direct Investment And Forward Hedging: This paper examines the behavior of a risk-averse MultiNational Firm MNF making investment in a foreign country under exchange rate uncertainty. To hedge the exchange rate risk, the MNF has access to an unbiased currency forward market. Foreign Direct Investment FDI is irreversible and sequential in that the MNF can...; Tags: Exchange Rate, Currency, Foreign Direct Investment, University Of Hong Kong, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2005-12-01
FDI, Globalisation And Economic Development: The key analytical and policy question examined in this paper is whether multinational companies and their overseas investment need to be regulated at the national or the international level, in order to address market failures, and to enhance their potential contribution to world welfare. This paper examines two kinds of...; Tags: Regime, University Of Cambridge, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2005-03-01
Does Foreign Direct Investment Harm The Host Country's Environment?: Evidence From China: As more manufacturing is moved to the developing countries, policy makers become concerned with the environmental consequence. Relatively lenient environmental policies in the developing countries may give them a comparative advantage in pollution intensive goods, and openness to trade and foreign direct investment might harm the host country's environment. This...; Tags: Developing Country, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2006-04-12

Investment Facilitation And Regulation In Developing Countries: Even those living in the remotest corners of the globe; palpably feel the irreversible impacts of globalisation - both negative and positive. This fact poses numerous challenges for policymakers at all levels across countries, more particularly in the developing world. One of these challenges stems from a widespread concern that...; Tags: Developing Country, Regulation, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Free Trade, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance; White papers 2006-02-16
Does A Country Need A Promotion Agency To Attract Foreign Direct Investment?: The objective of this paper is to assess to what extent does investment promotion help explain cross-country variations in Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows. It proposes a simple analytical model in which the promotion agency's behavior is assumed to reflect the interest of the government or a supervisory board under...; Tags: Agency, World Bank Group, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2003-04-01
Disentangling FDI Spillover Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us?: This paper's purpose is to shed some light on the difficulties facing researchers tackling the issue of FDI spillovers. Horizontal and vertical spillovers are examined in the context of Romania and the Czech Republic and demonstrate how starkly the conclusions may differ depending on the country analyzed, despite using the...; Tags: World Bank Group, Spillover, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2005-04-19
Flow Of Foreign Direct Investment To Hitherto Neglected Developing Countries: The last decade or so has witnessed rather dramatic increases in the flow of Foreign Direct Investment FDI to the developing countries of the world. However, the balance of evidence seems to point in one direction, the inflow has been uneven. Middle-income developing countries have benefited from this upsurge at...; Tags: Developing Country, Foreign Direct Investment, United Nations University, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Foreign Direct Investment, Services Trade Negotiations And Development: This paper examines whether and how developing countries can use services trade negotiations to increase the amount of inward FDI Foreign Direct Investment conducive to development, with a focus on the tourism sector in the Caribbean. The importance of tourism services to the Caribbean economy is generally acknowledged, though there...; Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Negotiation, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2005-11-01
Trade, FDI And Technology Diffusion In Developing Countries: The Role Of Human Capital And Institutions: This paper examines the impact of inflows of foreign knowledge on economic development, in the context of different institutional development and differing levels of human capital. It employ threshold regression analysis based on Hansen (2000) to determine whether there is cross-country heterogeneity in the flows of foreign knowledge from advanced...; Tags: Developing Country, Knowledge, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Human Capital, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Strategy, Free Trade, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2007-02-01
A Critical Analysis Of The Proposed Investment Treaty In WTO: This article provides a critique of the aims and consequences of the Multilateral Investment Agreement MIA proposed in the WTO. The MIA will give foreign investors total rights without responsibilities, with drawbacks for developing countries. The arguments put forward in favor of the MIA are also flawed. The proposal aims...; Tags: World Trade Organization, Analysis, Foreign Direct Investment, Global Policy Forum, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Free Trade, Investment, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; White papers 2003-07-01
External Capital Structure-Theory And Evidence: Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity flows have been playing an increasing role. In this article, one discusses the challenges for international macroeconomics that these developments pose and characterize stylized facts associated with the structure of external...; Tags: Developing Country, Equity, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Financial Services, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2000-08-01
Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment: This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment FDI and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used to compare the investment and income-reporting...; Tags: National Bureau Of Economic Research, Foreign Direct Investment, Taxes, Free Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Planning, Finance, Investment; White papers 2002-09-01
FDI Determination And Corporate Tax Competition In A Volatile World: This paper investigates the role of economic and political volatility in the process of corporate tax-rate determination. The paper is based on a theoretical framework that allows for the ability of multinational firms to choose the optimal timing of foreign investment and to shift profits by transfer pricing, and provides...; Tags: Volatility, Foreign Direct Investment, Determination, Taxes, Free Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Personal Finance, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2007-04-20
The Determinants Of Liberalization Of FDI Policy In Developing Countries: The decade of the 1990s was characterized by widespread liberalization of law and regulation affecting inflows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in developing countries.. Ninety-five percent of the changes in FDI policy over the decade were liberalizing rather than restrictive. Two possible explanations of liberalization are posited: policy makers' beliefs...; Tags: Developing Country, Liberalization, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Free Trade, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance; White papers 2004-06-01
How Tax Policy And Incentives Affect Foreign Direct Investment - A Review: The objective of this paper is to review the literature on tax policy, and foreign direct investment, and explore possibilities for research. They observe that tax incentives neither make up for serious deficiencies in a country's investment environment, or generate the desired externalities. Long-term strategies to improve human, and physical...; Tags: Incentive, Foreign Direct Investment, Taxes, Free Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Financial Planning, Finance, Investment; White papers 2000-12-01
To Share Or Not To Share: Does Local Participation Matter For Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment?: This article examines whether the degree of spillovers from foreign direct investment is affected by the foreign ownership share in investment projects. The analysis, based on an unbalanced panel of Romanian firms during 1998-2000, produces evidence consistent with positive intra-sectoral spillovers resulting from fully owned foreign affiliates but not from...; Tags: Project, World Bank Group, Spillover, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Channel Management, Investment, Finance, Marketing; White papers 2003-08-01
Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes: While governments have multiple tax instruments available to them, studies of the effect of tax policy on the locational decisions of multinationals typically focus exclusively on host country corporate income tax rates and their interaction with home country tax rules. This paper examines the impact of indirect (non-income) taxes on...; Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2001-08-21
Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition and Foreign Direct Investment: This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment FDI and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used to compare the investment and income-reporting...; Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Taxes, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Free Trade, Investment, Finance, Financial Planning; White papers 2002-09-18