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The Determinants of U. S. Direct Investment in the E. E. C.: Comment
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1972-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment.read more
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Location and the multinational enterprise: a neglected factor?
TL;DR: In this article, a distinguished group of experts pinpoint and rigorously analyse central topics in international business research, focusing on a new dynamic research agenda, for theory, for empirical research and for public policy.
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Determinants of foreign direct investment: A survey
TL;DR: This paper made an attempt to survey the literature on the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on the main currents of thought rather than on coverage of all the publications, and this survey is selective also in the sense that the marxist and dependencia schools of thought are not covered here.
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Do Lax Environmental Regulations Attract Foreign Investment
Yuquing Xing,Charles D. Kolstad +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a statistical test of the impact of environmental regulations on the capital movement of polluting industries is presented, and it is shown that laxity in environmental regulations in a host country is a significant determinant of FDI from the US for heavily polluted industries and is insignificant for less polluted industries.
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Empirical Determinants of Manufacturing Direct Foreign Investment in Developing Countries
Franklin R. Root,Ahmed A. Ahmed +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the empirical determinants of direct foreign-investment flows in the manufacturing sectors of developing countries and select from the many economic, social, and political features of a developing country those features that are critical to making that country attractive or unattractive to private foreign investors.
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Determinants of Foreign Investment of U.S. Advertising Agencies
Vern Terpstra,Chwo-Ming Yu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of several factors on the foreign investment of U.S. advertising agencies by using the theories on the determinants of foreign direct investment by manufacturing firms.
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Determinants of U.S. direct investment in the E.E.C.: Revisited
TL;DR: In this article, a longer data series is used, an improved tariff discrimination proxy is employed, and "predicted sales" are estimated and used as the output variable in the empirical work, a variable to capture the effect of the US capital control programs is also included.
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A Comparison of Alternative Theories of Corporate Investment Behavior
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Should aggregation prior to estimation be the rule
John B. Edwards,Guy H. Orcutt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the importance of using disaggregated data even when micro-components exhibit different behaviors, and demonstrate that models estimated from micro data will give generally superior out-of-sample forecasts.