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The Truth About foreign direct investment in Emerging Markets: In their zeal to attract foreign investment, governments in emerging markets offer tax breaks and subsidies that can cost those millions. Simultaneously, they enforce rules to protect inefficient domestic companies and to ensure that local economies benefit from the new business. The article finds that these incentives and restrictions are...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, McKinsey & Co., emerging market, incentive, tax, benefit; White papers
Agglomeration Effects In foreign direct investment And The Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Does environmental regulation impair international competitiveness of pollution-intensive industries to the extent that they relocate to countries with less stringent regulation, turning those into "Pollution havens"? This hypothesis is tested using panel data on outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows of various industries in the German manufacturing sector and account...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Columbia University, foreign direct investment, pollution, hypothesis, regulation, industry, manufacturing, technique, analysis, stock; White papers 2007-07-21
Get Your International Business Terms Right: Don't make the mistake of calling a company global when it's really just international -- or even worse, saying a company is multinational when it's really transnational! For convenience, it's common to use the umbrella term international business to describe business activities that extend past the borders of a company's...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Andrew Hines, home country, foreign direct investment; Blog posts 2007-06-07
How To Investigate The Impact Of foreign direct investment On Development: This paper examines three topics: how to investigate the impact of manufacturing FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) on a developing country host economy, how to search for externalities and spillovers (and identify the channels and mechanisms through which spillovers take place), and how to evaluate the question of whether host governments...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Brookings Institution, foreign direct investment, spillover, developing country, appraisal, manufacturing, business case, survey, analysis, industry; White papers 2007-07-01
Productivity And Taxes As Drivers Of FDI: The authors have developed a framework in which the host country productivity has a positive effect on the intensive margin (the size of FDI flows), but only an ambiguous effect on the extensive margin (the likelihood of FDI flows to occur). The source-country productivity has a negative effect on the...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, tax; White papers 2007-06-01

foreign direct investment And Cost Uncertainty: Correlation And Learning Effects: We examine a foreign firm's choice between exporting and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) under country-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, FDI exposes foreign and home firms to the common shock. This results in the correlation of strategies which harms firms. However, the exposure to common shocks also benefits firms by enabling...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Michigan State University, foreign direct investment, globalization, barrier, benefit, strategy; White papers 2007-05-18
Growth And The Quality Of foreign direct investment: Is All FDI Equal: This paper distinguishes different "Qualities" of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. The authors use 'Quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Harvard Business School, foreign direct investment, industry; White papers 2007-05-01
Growth And The Quality Of foreign direct investment: Is All FDI Equal?: This paper distinguishes different "Qualities" of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. The 'quality' is used to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Harvard Business School, foreign direct investment; White papers 2007-05-01
The Performance Of Foreign Firms And The Macroeconomic Impact Of FDI: In this paper, the author examines the macroeconomic impact of inward FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in Japan. From a general equilibrium point of view of the macroeconomy, probably the most important host country benefit of inward FDI is improvements in productivity caused by the inflow of managerial resources. In the...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, total factor productivity, Japan, performance; White papers 2007-05-01
Competition For FDI In The Presence Of A Public Firm And The Effects Of Privatization: This paper investigates tax/subsidy competition for FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) between countries of different size when a welfare-maximizing and relatively inefficient public firm is the incumbent in the largest market. First, it analyze how the presence of a public firm affects the investment decision of a multinational operating in the...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, multinational; White papers 2007-05-01
Skilled Migration, FDI And Human Capital Investment: It is commonly believed that accumulation of Human Capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through...; Tags: Accumulation, Migration, Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Investment, Finance; White papers 2007-05-01
FDI As A Signal Of Quality: This paper considers a new-product firm's choice between exporting and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to access foreign markets. It is found that, when quality is unknown to buyers, the firm may choose FDI over exporting to signal quality, even though FDI is a costlier mode of access than exporting. Then...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Emory University, foreign direct investment; White papers 2007-04-14
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: Taxes, Investment, Free trade, volatility, tax, foreign direct investment, pricing strategy, analysis; White papers 2007-04-20
Foreign Aid, FDI And Economic Growth In East European Countries: This paper examines the effectiveness of foreign aid and foreign direct investment in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. The model includes the labor force, capital stock, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, and is estimated using pooled annual time series data from 1993 to 2002. Before...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, stock; White papers 2007-04-08
Fortune Or Evil?: The Effects Of Inward foreign direct investment On Corruption: One prominent phenomenon in the global economy of the last two decades is booming cross-border flows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). FDI inflows have grown faster than world income since the 1960s, and MultiNational Corporations (MNCs) now account for about 70 percent of world trade, and the sales of their...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Columbia University, foreign direct investment, theory, sales; White papers 2007-04-01
Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, And foreign direct investment: Theory And Evidence: What is the effect of a strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection by developing countries on local imitation and inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)? This paper addresses this question both theoretically and empirically. On the theoretical side, a North-South product cycle model is developed in which Northern innovation,...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Columbia University, foreign direct investment, intellectual property right, intellectual property, business strategy, developing country, theory; White papers 2007-04-01
Do Institutions Matter For FDI?: A Comparative Analysis For The MENA Countries: The paper analyses the underpinning factors of foreign direct investments towards the MENA countries. Our main interpretative hypothesis is based on the significant role of the quality of institutions to attract FDI (Foreign Direct Investment). In MENA experience the growth of FDI flows proved to be notably inferior to that...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, performance; White papers 2007-03-28
Home Market Effects Of foreign direct investment: The Case Of Germany: The paper provides new evidence on the impact of foreign direct investment on the labour market of home countries. It is based on a new data set on change rates of foreign direct investment and domestic employment of German multinationals. The econometric analysis suggests that public concerns about a massive...; Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance; White papers 2007-03-19
foreign direct investment, Determinants And Policy Analysis: Case Study Of Pakistan: The objective of this paper is to understand the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows and to quantify relevant policy shocks in dynamic econometric model for Pakistan economy. The study has highlighted the degree of attraction of cost related factors, investment environment factors, development strategy factors with ownership and...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, University of Glasgow, foreign direct investment, Pakistan, analysis; White papers 2007-03-16
Corruption, foreign direct investment And Growth: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach: This paper investigates the role of corruption in explaining the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on growth across non-OECD countries. The distinguishing feature of this model is that the host country's level of corruption is linked to its absorptive capacity (the ability to absorb and efficiently utilize any positive...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, Bayesian; White papers 2007-03-15