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Can countries lobby for foreign direct investment? : evidence from the US
(Inderscience Publishers, 2018-07)
This paper empirically studies a mechanism where foreign direct investment (FDI) recipient countries lobby the US government for the allocation of outward US FDI. In this case, lobbying has the goal of informing US ...
Foreign direct investment spillovers: what can we learn from portuguese data?
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2000-01-01)
This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity performance of domestic firms in Portugal. The data comprise nine manufacturing sectors for the period 1992-95. Relatively to previous ...
Foreign direct investment spillovers: additional lessons from a country study
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2002-09-01)
We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on the productivity of domestic firms, using sectoral data for Portugal. An improved analysis takes into account the most appropriate interval for the technological ...
Foreign direct investment and security: simplifying the complexities
(2016-12-14)
The relationship between foreign direct investment and the security situation of a given country is complex and difficult to define. To further complicate matters, security is only one of many variables that drives the ...
National Policies to Attract Foreign Direct Investment in Research and Development: An Assessment of Brazil and Selected Countries
(2010-05-01)
This chapter examines the main policies employed to attract multinational corporation (MNC) technological activities in China, India, Ireland, Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan in order to analyse the case of Brazil. Foreign ...
The relations between foreign direct investment, government investment and unemployment (Ecuador 2003-2013)
(2015-01)
El desempleo puede dar una idea relativa de la salud de la economía de un país, y entre los
factores que tienen influencia sobre el desempleo tenemos la inversión directa extranjera y el
gasto gubernamental. El objetivo ...
The Inter-American Development Bank and the North American Foreign Policy Guidelines for Latin America: the IDB's work in Argentina and Brazil from 1960 to 2019
(Inst Brasileiro Relacoes Int, 2020-01-01)
Trade liberal ideals have always been part of US foreign policy as well as for those international institutions created with American support. The creation of the IDB represented the broad interest of the United States in ...
Investment regulation between Brazil and Angola: internal factors, international context and the design of the Agreement for Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFI)
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016)
The goal of this article is to contextualize the regulation of investment in Angola and Brazil, contrasting their distinctive approaches during the 1990s and the beginning of the years 2000, and analyzing how their divergent ...
An exploratory study on how the corruption level of the host country affects foreign direct investment’s inflows
(2016-11-10)
In today’s business world everything seems to be somehow linked to globalization, what leads to trading without barriers, developing productions schemes that involves more than one country and one location, capital flows ...
An Empirical Examination of the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Firm-Level Analysis for the Colombian Economy
(Universidad del Rosario, 2014)
We use a large firm level data set to investigate the determinants of foreign direct investment(FDI) in Colombia. We estimate econometric models for the determinants of the probabilitythat a firm receives FDI, as well as ...