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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Inward FDI"”.
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Determinants and impacts of inward FDI in Japan
… country characteristics affect the aggregate FDI inflows in the Japanese economy during the period of 1989-2002. Our results demonstrate that the stable investment climate of the home country is an essential factor indicating FDI inflows to Japan. By contrast, the export performance of the …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… examines the current and potential role of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated by the recent rise of inward FDI from both developed and developing countries into SSA, considering the attendant impact of foreign …
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF NIGERIA’S INWARD FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) FLOWS: A COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS
Despite a myriad of studies related to inward foreign direct investment (FDI) determinants, studies on how such determinants may differ in developing versus developed countries have produced mixed results from which it is difficult to discern a conventional wisdom. Moreover, only relatively few …
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The effect of liberalisation of foreign direct investment on the economic development of Thailand: an empirical and political economy approach
… the liberalisation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the Thai economic development. The case study of Thailand is interesting because the country has embraced market-driven development policies, particularly FDI and export-led growth strategy, for nearly forty years but her economic …
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Industry self-regulation in the global financial services sector
… crisis and its effectiveness in attracting inward foreign direct investment (FDI). The first essay provides a review of the literature debating the effectiveness of designating regulatory authority of an industry to the government versus firms and other private sector individuals closely …
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Openness and economic growth
… trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) are closely related and that they have varying impacts on economic growth in countries at different stages of development. The thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first one examines the causal relationship between FDI and trade in …
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The impact of foreign direct investment on New Zealand industry
… the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on industry in New Zealand. The research question addressed by the thesis is “What is the impact of FDI on New Zealand industry?”. The scope of the research incorporates the immediate, or first round impact of FDI on the foreign-owned …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity
… to provide a better understanding of the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity relationship by providing both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the existing literature. Chapter 2 studies how inward FDI can affect economic growth. We extend a leader-follower …
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The impact of tax and governance on profitability inward foreign direct investment in Asia countries.
… environment on underlying profitability of inward investment as well as the volume of investment. The aim of this research has three main objectives. The first objective is to understand how indirect taxes combine with direct taxes to affect the underlying potential returns to different …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can evince great advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can evince great advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such …
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The relationship between FDI and international trade : evidence from P.R. China and OECD
… relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade. It aims at offering a unified representation of trade-FDI cycles to better understand the process of internationalisation via exploring the trade-FDI relationship and related impacts on economic growth, both of the home …
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Economic governance, foreign direct investment and economic growth in South and East Asia pacific region: evidence from systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis
… considered to be one of the key drivers of both inward FDI and economic growth. In spite of this wide belief, empirical estimates focusing on South and East Asia Pacific countries are less than conclusive. The aim of this thesis is to summarise the empirical findings of existing studies on the …
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The Effect of Financial Sector Development on FDI led Growth in China
… and relied on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to supply their economies with the investment needed to maintain high economic growth and development. In their pursuit of FDI, many developing countries have passed policies and regulations aimed at attracting inward FDI. Because of the high …
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Inward foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from Vietnamese microdata
… indirect and crowding-in/crowding-out effects of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on firm productivity in Vietnam; and whether the effects are heterogeneous across firm and industry characteristics and geographic regions. Using a Cobb-Douglas production function and a Generalized Method of …
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Region-wise spillover effects from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as a key element in the industrial development of a nation. It brings capital inflow and contributes to the development of technology, managerial skills, and domestic firms. Multinational corporations (MNCs) possess superior knowledge, patents, …
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International Engagement and Performance of New Zealand Firms
… firm performance, merchandise exporting and inward foreign direct investment. In Chapters 3 and 4, firm-level comparisons identify the types of firms that export and the factors driving those firms to expand into additional export markets and relationships. A range of determinants are …
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Four studies on antitrust enforcement and foreign investment activities
… 3 examines how antitrust enforcement affects inward FDI at an aggregated level and finds the deterrence effect that the stricter antitrust enforcement decreases the willingness of foreigners to make further investments. Chapter 4 examines how antitrust enforcement affects foreign presence in …
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Three empirical essays on foreign direct investment, research and development, and insurance
… the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth. It tests whether<br/>countries with sufficiently high level of economic freedom can exploit FDI more efficiently. It<br/>uses cross-country observations from 84 countries for the 1976-2005 period. It applies a<br/>threshold …
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An evaluation of the three periods of China's FDI development: 1978-2000
… the impact of the fundamental changes in China's FDI related policy, on the development of Western inward FDI in the country. To achieve this, this study, first of all, establishes a definition of the fundamental changes, then divide FDI in China into the different development periods based on the …
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