Globalisation is one of the primary accused culprits of growing income inequality in the developed world. In particular, outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) is often associated with general “skill upgrading" in the ...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years.
Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based ...
Recent theoretical work suggests that the presence of foreign direct investment
(FDI) lowers a country’s noncooperative Nash tariff. To test this hypothesis, we first
adapt the theoretical model formulated by Blanchard ...
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment.
Using spatial estimation on panel data for ...
This paper examines the effect that a country’s business regulatory environment has
on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank’s Ease
of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that ...