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Foreign Direct Investment, Terms of Trade, and Quality Upgrading: What Is So Special about South Asia?
2016
The existing literature has highlighted the positive effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on export upgrading and associated terms of trade in developing economies. However, the FDI effect has been found to be negative in South Asia. In this paper, we elaborate on the South Asia-specific effect by emphasizing the role of human capital in the positive link between FDI and terms of trade. We argue that education levels in South Asia have lagged behind those in East Asia and other developing regions. This has resulted in a world market integration strategy in South Asia that specializes in less skills-intensive products and generates associated FDI flows. We demonstrate these patterns fo…
Is the productivity premium of internationalized firms technology-driven?
2020
AbstractWe ask whether the productivity advantage of internationalized firms documented by the international trade literature can be interpreted most accurately in terms of proximity to the “technological frontier”. We answer in the affirmative using a methodology (based on mixture models) of unbundling technology and total factor productivity (TFP) by estimating “technology-specific” production function parameters. Exploiting detailed data provided by the EFIGE database (a sample of firms distributed across Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and the UK), we find technology gaps (with respect to the frontier) more than three times larger than the TFP gaps on average. We also f…
Explaining German outward FDI in the EU: a reassessment using Bayesian model averaging and GLM estimators
2021
The last decades have seen an increasing interest in FDI and the process of production fragmentation. This has been particularly important for Germany as the core of the European Union (EU) production hub. This paper attempts to provide a deeper under standing of the drivers of German outward FDI in the EU for the period 1996–2012 by tackling the two main challenges faced in the modelization of FDI, namely the variable selection problem and the choice of the estimation method. For that purpose, we first extend previous BMA analysis developed by Camarero et al. (Econ Model 83:326–345, 2019) by including country-pair-fixed effects to select the appropriate set of variables. Second, we compare…
The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction
2019
Abstract This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: http://www.economics-ejournal.org/special-areas/special-issues/fdi-and-multinational-corporations. It summarizes the contents of the five papers included, and relates them to the recent literature on the subject.
Impact of e-government on transaction cost and FDI inflows: A proposed conceptual framework
2011
Published version of an article in International Journal of Business and Management, 6(11), 285-296. Also available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v6n11p285 Although vast normative e-government literature supports the assertion that implementation of e-government reduces transaction cost and promotes Foreign Direct Investment; empirical evidence to support this thesis is limited. Even more, there is limited attempt when studying this phenomenon to integrate e-government literature with other literatures in which major constructs of interest are rooted. This article contributes to reducing this gap by establishing a conceptual framework that integrates e-government lite…
E-Government in Marketing a Country: A Strategy for Reducing Transaction Cost of Doing Business in Tanzania
2011
Published version of an article in International Journal of Marketing Studies, 3(4), 2-16. Also available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v3n4p2 There are limited studies examining the role of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA’s) and their respective marketing techniques used in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Using an exploratory case study approach, this article addresses this research gap by exploring the role of e-government as a promotion technique in eliminating barriers to FDI inflows in Tanzania; particularly barriers related to information accessibility and bureaucratic procedures facing foreign investors in acquiring relevant licenses and business…
A study of language effects on inward FDI flows in Southeast Asia
2019
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2019 This master thesis explores how language might affectthe yearly flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) towards five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This is aresearch area that has been quite unexplored, and we find it interesting to put forward some hypotheses to observe if there exist such effects or not. By using multiple regression analysison a relevant dataset, three main hypothesesare tested:•Countries in which a global language holds an official status will contribute more FDI than other countries.•Countries that share a global language with a FDI recipient co…
Ķīnas tiešo investīciju Latvijā ilgtspēja
2021
Ķīnas tiešo investīciju Latvijā ilgtspēja. Pētījums ir par Ķīnas tiešajām investīcijām Latvijā. Tajā tiek analizēts, vai Ķīnas investīciju uzņēmumi Latvijā ir ilgtspējīgi. Ja viņi pilda saistības attiecībā uz korporatīvo sociālo atbildību, ja tie nekaitē videi. Tā kā Latvijā palielinās Ķīnas investīcijas, jāpārliecinās, ka tie nes peļņu, kā arī drošību.
HALAL gaļas ražošana un tās eksports no Latvijas
2019
Šī Muhamada Adnana (Muhammad Adnan) pētījuma mērķis ir konstatēt un novērtēt Halal pārtikas nozari, tās izaugsmi attīstītajās un jaunattīstības valstīs, kā arī noskaidrot iespējas, kā sabiedrībā popularizēt un veicināt Halal produktu izmantošanu uzturā. Pētījumā izmanto tās metodes balstītas uz uzņēmējdarbības vides novērtēšanu Halal pārtikas nozarē, tiešsaistes pētījumiem un dokumentu, zinātnisko rakstu analīzi. Konstatēts, ka, lai gan attīstītajās valstīs ir mazāk musulmaņu, Halal gaļas un pārtikas nozares tirgus daļa ir salīdzinoši augsta. Latvija ir valsts ar nelielu skaitu musulmaņu salīdzinājumā ar valstīm citviet pasaulē, bet tai ir stratēģiski laba atrašanās vieta, lai iegūtunozīmīg…
What drives German foreign direct investment? New evidence using Bayesian statistical techniques
2019
Abstract Despite the importance of Germany as an issuer of foreign direct investment (FDI), the studies analyzing its determinants are far from conclusive. This research contributes to filling this gap providing new evidence for the period 1996–2012. In order to reduce model uncertainty, we adopt a Bayesian model averaging (BMA) approach. We find that determinants associated with horizontal FDI appear to be dominant for explaining FDI in developed countries while for the group of developing countries covariates associated with vertical FDI motives play a larger role. Within Europe, while the majority of FDI is horizontally driven in “core” countries, in the “periphery” vertical motivations …