Author: Valeria A. Martinez GonzalezPublisher:
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Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Three Essays on International Investments
Author: Valeria A. Martinez GonzalezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Zhou, XiThree Essays on the Political Economy of Foreign Investments and International Business
Author: Trung A.. DangPublisher:
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
"My dissertation consists of three essays on the political economy of foreign investments and international business. The first essay investigates the relationship between a country's level of democracy and its ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). According to a well-established finding in the literature, democratic countries can attract more FDI. However, I show that this positive association between democracy and FDI disappears once I control for a selection bias in which FDI tends to come from democratic countries in the first place. I then show that it is not democracy by itself but the level of political similarity between any two countries that affects their FDI flow. In other words, democracy does not attract FDI, political similarity does. The second essay looks into how well countries absorb foreign investments after they receive those investments. I find that FDI contributes less to economic growth in more democratic countries. This result survives a long series of robustness checks, and its substantive effect is considerably larger than those of several other factors that affect growth, including market size, trade openness, development level, and inflation. While the first two essays are empirical in nature and primarily deal with politics at the macro level (i.e., between countries), the third essay is a theoretical study ofthe strategic interaction between micro-level actors (i.e., firms, activist groups) and their governments. It is, to my knowledge, the first game-theoretic model of private politics - a relatively young field - that focuses on the international dimension. I find that activist campaigns in democratic and nondemocratic countries have different characteristics due to the nature of the competition between firms and activist groups. Counterintuitively, I find that even if governments have pure economic motives - i.e., they only care about gaining investments for their countries?there still does not exist a "race to the bottom" in equilibrium, as commonly expected. Finally, I propose a novel answer to the perennial question in political science of why there is so "little" lobbying money in politics, which differs from previous explanations in that mine is the first one that is based on a competition dynamic."--Pages vi-vii.
Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Agim KukeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Three Essays in International Economics
Author: Maxwell OtengPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Three Essays on Foreign Investment
Author: Krishna SrinivasanThree Essays on Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Wenying JiangliThree Essays in International Finance
Author: Srisuda ChongsithipholPublisher:
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Category : Foreign exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Author: Kim Song Tan
Author: 張家瑞