[PDF] Top 20 Political Instability and Foreign Direct Investment in PALOP countries

... OLS and system-GMM ...(GDP) and corresponding growth rate; Polity2 as a political and regime type from the Polity IV Project 4 ; trade openness measured as the share of total trade to GDP; ... See full document

... 65 in 1992, OFDI officially became part of China’s Communist Party (CCP) plan for economic ...development. In the same year, during a national CCP event, Jiang Zemin, then Chairman of the CCP, publicly ... See full document

... technological and organizational change (see Piva et ...expansion in computer use in the 1980s could account for up to one-half of the increase in the rate of return to ...DiNardo and ... See full document

... explore foreign markets. The decision about in which country the company should invest isn’t ...decision, and culture is one of factors that international business scholars have incorporated ... See full document

... development in Serbia and Southeast-European coun- ...product, foreign direct investment and gross domestic product per capita in Serbia, the countries of Southeast ... See full document

... Grubert and Mutti (1991) MNEs “have the incentive to increase their after-tax profits by shifting taxable income from affiliates incorporated in high-tax countries to subsidiaries in low-tax ... See full document

... invested in the material and vehicle transportation by rail, to the detriment of the road transportation (Figure ...involve political matters and a macroeconomic study of this ...hours ... See full document

... home and host country ...rules and culture, and they influence how a firm operates outside the boundaries of its country of origin (Meyer Thein, ...drivers and constraints of a firm's ... See full document

... FDI in a given region, but general crimes such as homicides, guerrilla attacks, and general kidnappings have no significant effect on ...Camacho and Rodriguez (2013) similarly study Colombia ... See full document

... constraint and irm internationalization irstly by proposing the impact of alternative inancing and differentiating irm responses to the worsening inancial ...research and argues that credit ... See full document

... examined in relation to fdi-economic performance nexus using both economic-wide as well as sectoral economic performance measures like: value-added in the agriculture, manufacturing, and service ... See full document

... that countries with a strong currency tend to invest abroad, by lowering the competitiveness of exports and simultaneously making foreign assets cheaper in local currency ...different ... See full document

... facilitation and economic ...developing countries and examined why sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was relatively unsuccessful in attracting FDI despite policy ...regressions and a panel ... See full document

... Blundell and Bond, ...heteroscedasticity and serial correlation problems (Roodman, ...biased and inconsistent estimates (Roodman, ...used in order to deal with the downward bias of standard ... See full document

... Chowdhury and Mavrotas (2006) examine the connection between FDI and economic growth in Chile, Malaysia and Thailand in the period 1969-2000, using the long-run Granger causality test ... See full document

... calculation and that allowed investors st some point to make an specific decision , what has happened in the latest years as far as law interpretation and decision taking, I have to accept it, it ... See full document

... from foreign direct investment (FDI), notably its impacts on the enhancement of the host economy's productive capacity, creation of employment opportunities, boosting of external competitiveness of ... See full document

... Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1970, a year in which global FDI flows accounted for US$ ...that in 2015, it stood at US$ ...developed countries have been the major recipients of FDI ... See full document

... to investment and business expansion (Harrison et ...activities and the capacity to give external signals of solvency (Louri et ...financiers and of the capital gearing method used by banks to ... See full document

... on foreign direct investment flows attracted by ECE ...index and GDP, our results show a negative significant relation between corruption and FDI and a mild positive significant ... See full document