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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Foreign affiliates"”.
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FDI, development and the multilateral investment framework
… of the world economy since the mid 1980's. Foreign direct investment (FDI), broadly defined as the creation of enterprises abroad or the acquisition of substantial stakes in existing enterprises, now represents a major form of cross border capital flow. More than ever firms and industries in …
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The impact of direct foreign investment upon industrial structure. A case study of the uk electrical and instrument engineering industry: A reappraisal of the model of industrial structure incorporating the impact of direct foreign investment, utilising empirical evidence from a survey of the electrical and instrument engineering industry.
… increasing penetration of its economy by foreign affiliates. This is particularly noticeable in high technology industries such as Electrical and Instrument Engineering. The thesis identifies the mechanism by which direct foreign investment can influence industrial structure in such an …
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Financial derivatives use and firm value in East Asian non-financial firms
… and rewards domestic firms and domestic MNCs (foreign affiliates) with higher value; this finding holds after controlling for endogeneity and self-selection bias. Hedging behavior of domestic MNCs outperforms domestic firms and foreign affiliates in terms of firm value. Derivative usage is …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Africa
Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a valuable source of external finance to complement domestic savings, enhance domestic investment and increase employment in developing countries. It can potentially promote long-term growth and development through knowledge and technology transfers from …
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Essays on international trade and investment
… whether there exist productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to domestic firms in the same sector (horizontal spillovers), and in sectors supplying intermediate inputs to foreign affiliates (vertical spillovers through backward linkages). I find evidence of negative horizontal …
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Multinational enterprises, technology transfer and spillovers: panel data evidence from UK manufacturing industry
… issues on the research agenda concerning foreign direct investment (FDI). This thesis examines the relationships between multinational investment, technology transfer, spillovers and economic performance. It does this through econometric analysis using firm level panel datasets from UK …
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Essays on banking in developing countries
… Emerging Europe a region with one of the highest foreign bank presence in the world - to study the impact of foreign bank ownership and bank organizational structure on the cost of financial intermediation and terms of loan contracts. The last essay focuses on Kenya which is home to M-Pesa the …