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吳淑綸 and Shu-Lun Wu. "Subsidy、Regional Intergration and Direct Investment." 碩士, 東吳大學, 1986. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22086SCU04389001%22.&searchmode=basic.
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Rockler, Nicolas O. "Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69757.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000."February 2000."
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Three studies were conducted to analyze the relationship between public infrastructure investment and regional economic performance. The first study examines the literature on economic development and productivity growth. I show that conflicting results from studies by other analysts are the likely result of poor public capital data spanning to short an interval, and an inadequate modeling framework. Public investment may generate small improvements in productivity, but models understate economic impacts owing to the public goods character of some forms of public capital. The second study explores the relationship between economic distress and public infrastructure investment. I use a sample of U.S. counties to analyze public investment according to level of economic distress. With simple investment models, I estimated infrastructure needs for counties with apparent shortfalls. I analyzed the needs-estimates in a series of case studies in which jurisdiction planning and budget personnel were consulted about the accuracy of the estimates. I show that short-run economic distress is not to be linked to public infrastructure investment. Over the long-run, investment varies by level of distress, but as a consequence of private residential investment. The needs-estimating models were reasonably accurate, but missing investment data proved troublesome. Counties proved to be a poor unit of analysis for infrastructure needs, as since significant variation was observed among jurisdictions within counties. The third study demonstrates the need for better estimates of public infrastructure capital stock. I prepared new capital stock estimates for two regions using local investment data and survey-based public capital service lives. I surveyed one thousand jurisdictions in the New England region and the state of Texas. Survey-based service-lives seem to differ significantly from estimated lives. Stock estimates using local investment data and survey-based service-lives produce dramatic differences compared to estimated stocks at the state and regional level. The new data, however, performed just as poorly as other series when used to estimate aggregate production functions. Prior analysts' understanding the relationship between economic performance and public infrastructure investment has been limited because of poor data, and inadequate appreciation of infrastructure's inherent complexity. The research presented here demonstrates that significant improvements are possible and worth undertaking.
by Nicholas O. Rockler.
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Кобушко, Ігор Миколайович, Игорь Николаевич Кобушко, Ihor Mykolaiovych Kobushko, and O. O. Bachal. "Approaches to the regional investment attractiveness evaluation." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40734.
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The effectiveness of the regional investment policy is determined by
the level of investment attractiveness (IA), implemented as part of the
investment strategy. The lack of a generally accepted definition of the
"regional investment attractiveness" has meant that there is no single
methodological approach to its assessment.
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Korzhenevych, Artem, and Johannes Bröcker. "Investment Subsidies and Regional Welfare: A Dynamic Framework." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-235416.
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Subsidising investment in lagging regions is an important regional policy instrument in many countries. Some argue that this instrument is not specific enough to concentrate the aid towards the regions that are lagging behind most, because investment subsidies benefit capital owners who might reside elsewhere, possibly in very rich places. Checking under which conditions this is true is thus highly policy relevant. The present paper studies regional investment subsidies in a multiregional neoclassical dynamic framework. We set up a model with trade in heterogeneous goods, with a perfectly integrated financial capital market and sluggish adjustment of regional capital stocks. Consumers and investors act under perfect foresight. We derive the equilibrium system, show how to solve it, and simulate actual European regional subsidies in computational applications. We find that the size of the welfare gains depends on the portfolio distribution held by the households. If households own diversified asset portfolios, we find that the supported regions gain roughly the amounts that are allocated to them in the form of investment subsidies. If they only own local capital stocks, a part of the money is lost through the drop in share prices. From the point of view of total welfare, the subsidy is not efficient. It can lead to a welfare loss for the EU as a whole and definitely leads to welfare losses in the rest of the world, from where investment ows to the supported EU regions.
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Нolovko, A., Людмила Сергіївна Захаркіна, Людмила Сергеевна Захаркина, Liudmyla Serhiivna Zakharkina, Лариса Степанівна Отрощенко, Лариса Степановна Отрощенко, and Larysa Stepanivna Otroshchenko. "Regional and sectoral analysis of investment in Ukrainian economy." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77622.
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Undoubtedly, investment activity has always been one of the main focuses of
scientific economic research. This is due to the fact that the investment process is at
the heart of starting any business; investment also contributes to the growth of
technological progress and the economy of the country in general. The urgency of the
problem lies in the fact that the increasing or decreasing of the profitability depends
on the rationality of investment management and country’s investment attractiveness
is crucial for insuring sustained economic growth and prosperity.
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clements, john s. III. "Agricultural Commodity Futures and Farmland Investment: A Regional Analysis." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/real_estate_diss/8.
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Using seventeen years of data from 1991 to 2008, I derive a pricing model for farmland values. This valuation model is the first using agricultural commodity futures as a proxy for “ex ante” income projections for the crops grown or livestock grazed on United States farmland. While not all inclusive, the model is tested regionally including the Corn Belt, Delta States, Lake States, Mountain, Pacific Northwest, Pacific West and Southeast Regions. Additionally, I test whether interest rate futures contracts have a relationship with farmland values as interest rates have been proven to be a reliable predictor in past research. Farmland capitalization rates and anticipated inflation have hypothesized relationships, but are mainly used as control variables in the study.
In general, agricultural commodity futures contracts are a poor predictor of changes in farmland market values. When examining relationships with quarterly percentage change regression models of the included variables, I find the Mountain region provides the most reliable pricing model where both live cattle and Minnesota wheat futures contracts has a positive statistically significant relationships with farmland market values. Also, wheat futures prices have a significant relationship with farmland values in the Corn Belt region. Interest rate futures contracts, farmland capitalization rates and anticipated inflation are not statistically significant in the majority of the regions.
As a robustness check, I model the price levels of the variables using Johansen’s cointegration procedure. This time-series econometric methodology provides results in regards to long-run equilibrium relationships between the variables. The results are only slightly better. Corn, orange juice and sugar futures contracts have positive statistically significant relationships with farmland market values in multiple regions. Again, wheat has a statistically significant positive relationship with farmland values in the Corn Belt region. The Mountain region and interest rate futures contracts are not applicable for the cointegration tests as they are not integrated to the order of one.
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Griffiths, David James. "Foreign direct investment, regional integration agreements and economic growth." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507425.
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Weaver, Andrew 1968. "Venture capital investment patterns : implications for regional economic development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70866.
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Louri-Dendrinos, H. "Regional policy and investment in Greek manufacturing industry : 1971-1982." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371695.
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Chandaengerwa, Fiona Nyarai. "Towards a regional investment dispute settlement system an African perspective." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5958.
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Magister Legum - LLM (Mercantile and Labour Law)Foreign investment was believed to have been fostered by states signing bilateral investment treaties (BITS) and multilateral investment treaties as a way of protecting investors. The proliferation of such agreements has been exponential over the past century. Unlike trade, the regulation of investment is largely fragmented as no comprehensive multilateral accord exists. International investment flows are protected by a disintegrated system of approximately 3328 international investment agreements (IIAs) and 300 free trade agreements (FTAs) with investment chapters. These agreements include binding provisions on the standards of protection for the foreign investors, such as national treatment, fair and equitable treatment, and liberal repatriation of funds. The most fundamental feature of IIAs is that investors can assert their rights against host counties directly before transnational arbitration tribunals.
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Pisaneschi, Maria L. "Significance of the European Investment Bank." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000298.
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Potter, Jonathan Graham. "External investment and the manufacturing economy of Cornwall and Devon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240096.
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Helldin, Amanda. "Regional determinants of foreign direct investment : - A study of eastern China." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8455.
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This paper presents a study of which affect determining factors of foreign direct investment (FDI) has had in China’s eastern provinces. The eastern region is studies to shed more light on why these provinces has been able to attract more FDI than the central and western provinces. FDI theory gives an explanation to why business make direct investments on foreign markets and what factors that affect these decisions. Four of these factors; wage, education level, GDP per capita and level of infrastructure are studied using data from China Statistical Yearbooks. Data is studied by using an index created by the author. The results indicate that education level is of importance when wage levels increase in order to keep attracting FDI. Also, a positive relationship between infrastructure and FDI inflow is found.
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Davis, Gregory D. "Regional Free Trade Institutions and Foreign Capital Investment: The Multilateral Advantage." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195610.
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Preferential trade institutions (PTIs) are the primary subject of the three empirical chapters. The first two chapters consider the relationship between the multi-state market formed when bordering states share membership in a PTI and foreign direct investment (FDI). The first focuses on the relationship between these institutions and FDI inflows, while the second considers the effect these institutions have on multinational profitability. The final empirical model examines the relationship between democratic institutions and PTI membership.Regional PTIs increase the local market size and attract higher FDI inflows. The New Economic Geography (NEG) provides the theoretical framework for evaluating the spatial distribution of foreign capital within a multi-state market. A fixed-effects crosssectional time series regression examines one hundred nine states from 1980 to 2005. Multilateral PTIs are more likely to attract FDI inflows than a series of bilateral agreements. These spatial benefits are highly concentrated in states with the strongest regional economy.Regional PTIs improve multinational investment return for companies located in the multi-state market by increasing the local market size. The NEG provides the theoretical paradigm to assess the relationship between U.S. FDI profitability and multistate markets. A panel-corrected standard error cross-sectional time series regression assesses this relationship for forty states from 1990 to 2004. The findings show that membership within a regional multi-state trade institution does not increase the profitability of foreign investment. Only FDI located in core states within the multi-state market will see increased returns.Democracies have specific institutional qualities that make them more likely to join PTIs. Three empirical models evaluate one hundred sixty-seven states from 1960 to 2004. The models examine whether democracies are more likely to have membership in a PTI, whether pairs of democracies are more likely to share membership in a PTI, and whether democracies are likely to have more PTI state partners. Democracies are more likely to have membership in a PTI and have more state partners. These numbers hold for bilateral and overall PTIs, but authoritarian states have more partners in multilateral institutions.
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Moodley, Pathmabathi. "The determinants of foreign direct investment to Africa : a regional perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50651.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: "Private intemational capital flows, particularly foreign direct investment, are vital complements to national and intemational development efforts. Foreign direct investment contributes toward financing sustained economic growth over the long term. It is especially important for its potential to transfer knowledge and technology, create jobs, boost overall productivity, enhance competitiveness and entrepreneurship, and ultimately eradicate poverty through economic growth and development (Nunnenkamp, 2002). As a result of these associated benefits, strategies for the attraction of FDI have become an increasingly important item on a country's economic agenda. However, prior to these strategies being developed and as a result of the concentration of high FDI flows to a limited number of countries, it is important to establish those salient factors that drive FDI flows. Africa has failed to hamess onto the FDI phenomenon and as a continent attracts very little FDI inflows. To date, only a limited number of empirical studies have been done on FDI flows to Africa. The objective of this study is to establish the macroeconomic and political factors that will stimulate and increase the flows of FDI to Africa. Pooled econometrical analysis, using the Random and Fixed Effects method is used in the empirical estimation. The findings differ according to the type of model used, however, the results in general, reveal that the level of industrialisation in a country, the state of its infrastructure, the country's economic growth rate and productivity levels are important determinants of the flows of FDI to Africa. The surprising result is that political stability and the level of openness in Africa are insignificant determinants of the flows of FDI to Africa. Very few studies take into account that Africa can be classified into various regional groupings viz; North, East, West, Central and Southem Africa, with previous studies focusing mainly on North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa. An additional objective of the study was to determine the regional specific determinants that drive FDI. The findings reveal that openness is important in North Africa and Central Africa whilst the level of industrialisation significant in a North African and West African context. The state of the infrastructure network is central to FDI flows in West and Central Africa whereas political stability is the key to promoting FDI flows to East Africa. A surprising finding is that none of the tested determinants were significant in a Southern African context. The above-mentioned findings demonstrate the need for further research in terms of the country specific determinants of FDI. This will serve to advise governments in the drafting of a country's national policy agenda and selection of FDI attraction strategy, so that the benefits thereof are maximised and costs thereto minimised.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Private internasionale kapitaalvloei, veral direkte belegging in die buiteland, is aanvullings wat van die allergrootste belang is vir nasionale en internasionale pogings wat met ontwikkeling verband hou. Buitelandse direkte belegging (BDB) dra by tot die finansiering van volgehoue ekonomiese groei op die lang termyn. Dit is veral belangrik vir die potensiaal daarvan om kennis en tegnologie oor te dra, werksgeleenthede te skep, algehele produktiwiteit te verstewig, mededingendheid en entrepreneurskap te verbeter, en om armoede uiteindelik deur ekonomiese groei en ontwikkeling uit te skakel" (Nunnenkamp, 2002). In die lig van hierdie gepaardgaande voordele, het strategieë vir die aantrekking van BDB 'n toenemend belangrike item op 'n land se ekonomiese agenda geword. Voordat hierdie strategieë egter ontwikkel word, en as gevolg van die konsentrasie van hoë BDB-vloei na 'n beperkte aantal lande, is dit belangrik om daardie vernaamste faktore wat BDB-vloei aandryf, te vestig. Afrika het versuim om die BDB-verskynsel in te span, en as 'n vasteland lok dit baie min BDB-invloei. Tot op datum is slegs 'n beperkte aantal empiriese studies oor BDB-vloei na Afrika gedoen. Die doelwit van hierdie studie is om die makroekonomiese en politiese faktore vas te stel wat die vloei van BDB na Afrika sal stimuleer en verhoog. 'n Poel van ekonometriese ontledings deur die metode van Stogastiese en Vaste Effekte word in die empiriese skattings gebruik. Die bevindings verskil volgens die tipe model wat gebruik word, maar die resultate oor die algemeen toon dat die vlak van industrialisasie in 'n land, die toestand van 'n land se infrastruktuur, die land se ekonomiese groeitempo en produktiwiteitsvlakke belangrike bepalers is van die vloei van BDB na Afrika. Die verbasende resultaat is dat politiese stabiliteit en die vlak van die oopheid van ekonomieë in Afrika onbelangrike bepalers van die vloei van BDB na Afrika is. 'n Geringe aantal studies neem in aanmerking dat Afrika in verskillende streeksgroeperings, nl Noord-, Oos-, Wes-, Midde-, en Suider-Afrika ingedeel kan word, met vorige studies wat hoofsaaklik op Noord-Afrika en sub-Sahara-Afrika fokus. 'n Bykomende doelwit van die studie was om die streek spesifieke bepalers wat BDB aandryf, vas te stel. Die bevindings dui daarop dat oopheid van ekonomieë in Noord-Afrika en Midde-Afrika belangrik is, terwyl die vlak van industrialisasie in die konteks van Noord-Afrika en Wes-Afrika betekenisvol is. Die toestand van die infrastruktuurnetwerk is sentraal tot BOB-vloei in Wes- en Midde-Afrika terwyl politiese slabiliteit die sleutel is tot die bevordering van BOB-vloei na Oos-Afrika. 'n Verbasende bevinding is dat geen van die getoetste bepalers in die konteks van Suider-Afrika betekenisvol was nie. Bogenoemde bevindings toon die behoefte aan verdere navorsing in terme van die spesifieke bepalers van BOB van 'n land. Dit sal dien om inligling te verstrek oor 'n land se nasionale beleidsagenda en 'n seleksie van strategie om BOB te lok, sodat die voordele gemaksimeer en die koste daarvan geminimiseer kan word.
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Islam, Samia. "Three essays on spatial spillovers of highway investment and regional growth." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3576.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 112 p. : ill., maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Dong, Yukun. "Assessing investment analysis strategies for infrastructure renewal in Regional Transportation Planning." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 180 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1605161251&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Zhang, Jing. "Foreign direct investment, governance, and the environment in China : regional dimensions." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/152/.
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This thesis includes four empirical studies related to foreign direct investment (FDI), governance, economic growth and the environment. We firstly investigate the existence of the so called pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) in China, i.e. the impact of regional environmental regulations (ER) on FDI inflows. We then examine the other determinants of FDI: regional government effort to tackle corruption and government efficiency. It then extends the methodology of the first two studies and revisits the PHH issues by treating ER as endogenous. Finally, we observe the effects of economic growth and foreign direct investment on the environmental quality across Chinese cities. After addressing the weaknesses in previous literature, our findings provide the following results. First, an intra-country pollution haven effect does exist in China. Such an effect is also found when ER is treated as endogenous but not robust for the sensitivity checks using different instrumental variables and estimators. Second, FDI is attracted to regions that have made more effort on fighting against corruption and that have more efficient government. Third, government variables do not have a significant impact on ER. Fourth, economic growth has a negative effect on environmental quality at current income levels in China. Finally, foreign investment has positive effects on water pollutants and a neutral effect on air pollutants. Such effects vary across pollutants and investment from different sources.
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Di, Cataldo Marco. "Regional and local development in Europe : public policies, investment strategies, institutions." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3715/.
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The development strategies being promoted in the EU – Europe 2020 and the 2014-2020 Cohesion Policy – aim to supersede the presumed incompatibility between efficiency and equity through a policy approach tailoring interventions to the key specificities of all territories, including the most disadvantaged. In this view, the socio-economic progress of lagging regions would help keeping under control any increase in inequalities potentially associated with the economic development process. However, the idea of promoting spatially-targeted interventions in economically backward areas has been conceptually questioned, and the effectiveness of the Cohesion Policy programme in poorer regions is yet to be convincingly proven. In the policy framework underpinning EU strategies, a key role is assigned to the quality of regional and local government institutions. Public institutions are conceived as instrumental for identifying and solving the bottlenecks inhibiting economic growth and perpetuating social exclusion in poorer places. Nevertheless, local governments may also be responsible for wastes and misallocations of financial resources. While theoretical contributions on the importance of government institutions for regional and local development abound, empirical evidence on their functioning is scarce. Through which mechanisms they influence the design and outcomes of public policies is unclear. Drawing from cross-country investigations and case-studies in the European context, the four quantitative studies composing this Thesis contribute to shed light on these related issues. Focusing on the United Kingdom, the first paper evaluates the economic and labour market impact of EU Cohesion Policy. Counterfactual analyses demonstrate that EU regional policies may have a beneficial impact on the labour market and growth path of peripheral regions. The study warns over possible negative repercussions of a discontinuation of EU financial support to poorer areas, a result of obvious relevance for the country after ‘Brexit’. By exploiting panel samples of EU regions, the second and third papers shed light on the role of government institutions for the returns of regional investments and for labour market and social conditions in Europe. The second paper examines the link between institutional quality, transport infrastructure investments, and economic growth. It shows that improvements in secondary (local) roads are conducive to a better economic performance only in presence of sound regional governments. The third paper investigates the extent to which the factors at the centre of European growth strategies – institutions, innovation, human capital and transport infrastructure – contribute to the generation of employment and to social inclusion in EU regions. The evidence produced suggests that regional government institutions have been essential to mitigate social exclusion issues in EU regions. The fourth paper focuses on Southern Italy to examine how public finances are distorted by ‘local governments captures’ operated by organised crime. Collusions between mafia and local politics have a significant impact on the selection of investments and on the collection of fiscal revenues. The local policy agenda is modified to the advantage of the interests of organised crime. Overall, the evidence emerging from this Thesis suggests that policy interventions have the potential to boost the economic and labour market performance of the less developed EU regions. However, any favourable policy outcome (both in terms of efficiency and equity) is conditioned by the competence and the goodwill of government institutions responsible for defining development targets and enforcing investment plans. When politicians are conditioned by illegal pressures from criminal groups, investment decisions follow special interests rather than general welfare goals. In turn, inadequate governance harms the economic impact of selected interventions. The results are particularly relevant for the lively debate, within economic geography, on the pre-conditions and policy measures enabling ‘smart and inclusive’ development at the sub-national level.
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Woolcock, Stephen. "The role of regional agreements in trade and investment rule-making." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2955/.
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This thesis investigates the role of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements in rule-making. Rule-making at the regional and bilateral levels has become more important, but there are at present no general criteria for assessing its impact. The thesis discusses the existing literature on preferential trade agreements and argues that there is a gap in terms of how rule-making in RTAs and FTAs might be assessed. An analytical framework is then developed that provides the basis for a qualitative assessment of the role of RTAs and FTAs. This framework is then applied to four horizontal case studies; technical barriers to trade, public procurement, investment and competition policy. These, together with secondary literature describing other case studies, show that rule-making is and has always been a multilevel process. The issue to be addressed in terms of the rule-making aspects of preferential agreements should therefore be what role RTAs and FTAs play in rule-making rather than whether preferential agreements undermine multilateral rules or not. The thesis argues that RTAs had a broadly positive effect during the period from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s, but that subsequent developments give rise to a more nuanced assessment. The thesis also makes a comparison of two dominant European Union and US approaches to regional and bilateral agreements. This shows the US approach to be more uniform and more assertive compared to the EU approach to negotiating FTAs. The thesis concludes with a discussion of how criteria developed from the analytical framework could be used as the basis for qualitative assessments of the role and impact of the rule-making aspects of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements.
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Uhlir, David. "Regional transformation in the Czech Republic : internationalization, embeddedness and adaptability." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300240.
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Nairn, A. G. M. "The impact of investment on regional development : Comparative case studies on Clydeside." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381108.
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Sax, Kaijser Per. "Tobin’s Q theory and regional housing investment : Empirical analysis on Swedish data." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226661.
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This thesis investigates the relationship between Tobin’s Q and regional housing investment in Sweden for the time period of 1998-2012. The relationship is tested through estimation of two models for time-series analysis, a vector error correction model (VECM) and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Depending on which model that is used, I find some evidence of positive correlation between Tobin’s Q and regional housing investment in the long run while the short run dynamics of investment does not seem to be explained by Tobin’s Q. By transforming the regional data into a panel data set and running a fixed effects model, I examine the gain in explanatory power of Tobin’s Q from using disaggregated data rather than aggregated. My findings suggest that using disaggregated data improves the explanatory power of Tobin’s Q on investment. However, the Granger Causality test indicates two-way causality between Tobin’s Q and investment, causing endogeneity problem in the estimated equations.
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Jiwattanakulpaisarn, Piyapong. "The impact of transport infrastructure investment on regional employment : an empirical investigation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11780.
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Over the past decades, substantial attempts have been made to empirically investigate whether investments in transport infrastructure can generate job opportunities throughout an economy. Previous research has provided mixed and inconclusive evidence. One possible reason is that previous work has generally suffered from several methodological drawbacks. In theory, improvements in transport infrastructure could have long-term economic impacts by influencing both firm and household decisions that can affect employment. The employment effect may take place at several points in time and space, and could vary considerably across different sectors of the economy. Provision of transport infrastructure is also endogenous; therefore, the causal relationship between transport investment and employment may be ambiguous. These issues, while acknowledged in the literature, have not been adequately addressed in empirical studies. This dissertation explores the empirical relationship between highway infrastructure investment and regional employment. Using panel data for the 48 contiguous US states and the county level panel data for the State of North Carolina, recent advances in dynamic panel and spatial econometric methods are applied to sort out this relationship in time and space. To provide a better understanding of the causal linkages between highway infrastructure and regional employment, this dissertation presents a first attempt to ��?���·examine the causal and spatial spillover effects of highways on employment in various sectors of the economy. The scope of the thesis' contribution also extends to the study of transport infrastructure and economic productivity by examining the effect of highway capacity additions on private sector output. The findings of this dissertation have several important implications on policy and methodologies used to estimate economic development impacts from highway infrastructure investments, and overall assessment of capacity additions.
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Lo, Wai Lun. "Foreign investment in Guangdong : effects on economic growth and regional distribution determinants." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/633.
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Amarante, Adriano de. "Ensaios em economia regional e urbana." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/35454.
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Nesta tese propõe-se responder a três principais questões: No primeiro ensaio estuda-se o impacto dos investimentos privados de multinacionais do setor automobilístico no Brasil sobre o crescimento da atividade econômica dos municípios. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que as cidades onde se instalam este tipo de investimentos alcançam um desempenho superior aos outros grupos de municípios sem este recurso. Estes resultados apontam para uma subprovisão de bens públicos esperada em todo agrupamento de cidades, e um crescimento da atividade industrial no grupo de municípios de domicílio dos investimentos em detrimento a um crescimento abaixo da média do grupo de controle dos municípios adjacentes. No segundo ensaio proposto nesta tese, levanta-se a questão sobre qual o impacto do investimento em infraestrutura viária sobre a economia dos municípios do estado de Santa Catarina. Para responder esta questão, o método de regressão de dados em painel foi utilizado para identificar e mensurar o efeito do investimento público em rodovias interestaduais sobre o crescimento econômico municipal. Os resultados apontam para um efeito positivo sobre os municípios adjacentes e aqueles cortados pela rodovia federal. O setor agropecuário tende a perder valor agregado dado uma possível realocação de recursos para o setor de serviços e indústria de transformação. No terceiro e último ensaio, sobre a dinâmica da distribuição espacial da população no Brasil, tem-se como ideia central testar a Lei de Zipf tendo por base as estimativas da dinâmica populacional dos municípios brasileiros e seus limites populacionais (K). Recentes trabalhos na área de economia regional e urbana, e da nova geografia econômica (NGE), retomam o tema sobre a distribuição espacial da população entre as cidades. A principal questão neste ensaio é descobrir sobre a existência de uma tendência na distribuição do tamanho dos municípios brasileiros a atender a Lei de Zipf. Após as estimativas para um estado estacionário na dinâmica populacional dos municípios brasileiros e as estimativas por regressão quantílica da lei de potência, rejeitou-se em quase a totalidade das amostras a existência de um expoente igual a -1.In this thesis propose to reply three principals’ questions. In the first essay examines the impact of private investment of multinational automobile industry in Brazil about the growth of economic activity of municipalities. The results obtained suggest that the municipalities that settle the investments reach a performance superior to other groups of municipalities. These results point to a underprovision expected of public goods in all groups of municipalities and increasing industrial activity in the municipalities of domicile of the investment over a growth below the average of the control group of adjacent municipalities. In the second essay proposed in this thesis, the question is about what the impact of highway infrastructure investment on the economy of the municipalities in the State of Santa Catarina. To answer this question makes use of panel date regression method to identify and measure the effect of public investment on the municipal economic growth. The results does are positive on the neighbouring and crossways interstate highway, the agriculture sector loses added value due a possible relocation of resources to service and manufacture sector. In the third essay, on the dynamics of spatial distribution of population in the Brazil, the core insight this is to test the Zipf’s Law from estimates of population dynamics of Brazilian municipalities and their population limits (K). Lately, studies on the approach of urban and regional economy and of new economic geography (NEG) recovers’ theme on the spatial distribution of population among cities. The central question in this essay, is whether there is a trend in the distribution of sizes of municipalities meet Zipf's law? After estimates for a steady state in the population dynamics of Brazilian municipalities and estimates for regression quantiles power law rejected in almost all of the samples the presence of an exponent equal to-1.
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Araujo, Maria da Piedade. "Infraestrutura de transporte e desenvolvimento regional: uma abordagem de equilíbrio geral inter-regional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11132/tde-07062006-162615/.
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Este trabalho analisa os impactos da implementação de projetos de infraestrutura de transporte sobre o crescimento econômico nacional e regional e a contribuição deles para diminuição das disparidades, quando melhoria na acessibilidade é implementada. O arcabouço metodológico consiste da integração de um modelo de transporte ao modelo MIBRA, um modelo aplicado de equilíbrio geral inter-regional para a economia brasileira. Enquanto o modelo de transporte dá a interação espacial entre as regiões, o modelo de equilíbrio geral especifica o comportamento da oferta e demanda de produtores, família e governo em uma economia real, determinando preços e quantidades simultaneamente. Neste trabalho o modelo de transporte é reconhecido como um índice de acessibilidade. A hipótese assumida é que quando a condição da rodovia é melhorada a acessibilidade entre as regiões torna-se maior e os usuários podem consumir menos serviços de margens de transporte. O ano de referência do modelo é 1999. O modelo comporta seis regiões: Norte, Nordeste, Centro-Oeste, São Paulo, Resto do Sudeste e Sul e, tem detalhes para 29 setores. Foram avaliados os impactos sobre a economia nacional e regional da duplicação parcial das rodovias federais BR-116 e BR-153. Em ambas as simulações, os resultados foram condizentes com os esperados. A menor necessidade de demanda por margem de transporte, devido à melhoria da acessibilidade entre as regiões, faz reduzir o nível de atividade do setor de transporte rodoviário. Com isto, fatores primários são liberados para os demais setores da economia implicando, num primeiro momento, em menor nível de preços e, conseqüentemente em maior nível de produção em resposta à maior demanda. Os resultados para a BR-116, uma das mais importantes ligações rodoviárias entre as regiões Nordeste, Sudeste e Sul do país, apontam para difícil situação da região Nordeste em relação às demais regiões brasileiras. Os resultados de longo prazo mostram uma perda relativa do Nordeste em relação às regiões mais dinâmicas do país, quando se considera a variação do PIB. Ou seja, a melhoria da infraestrutura num contexto inter-regional, implica que regiões mais dinâmicas atraiam para si os benefícios de um melhor fluxo de comércio. Neste sentido, a dependência do Nordeste com respeito ao comércio intraregional é exacerbada com a melhoria da acessibilidade entre as regiões. Os resultados para a BR-153 reforçam de alguma forma os encontrados para a BR-116. Apesar da BR-153 integrar também uma região pobre (Norte) às regiões mais dinâmicas, em termos regionais, os resultados da duplicação parcial desta rodovia são mais favoráveis do que os da BR-116. Isto pode ser explicado pelo fato de que boa parte dos trechos duplicados na simulação com a BR-153 estarem localizados nas regiões mais desenvolvidas do país. Os resultados indicam que a decisão quanto aos investimentos deve levar em consideração os efeitos sobre a economia nacional mas, principalmente os efeitos regionais, uma vez que tal decisão tomada isoladamente pode contribuir para ampliar as disparidades regionais.over the regional and national economic growth and its contribution to the decrease of the regional disparities in Brazil, as far as accessibility is concerned. The methodological framework consists on the integration of a transportation model with the MIBRA model, an interregional applied general equilibrium model of the Brazilian economy. While the transportation model gives the spatial interaction among regions, the general equilibrium model specifies the behavior of supply and demand of producers, household, and government in a real economy, determining prices and quantities simultaneously. In this work, the transportation model is recognized as an accessibility index. The hypothesis assumed is that when the condition of the road is improved the accessibility among regions becomes higher and the users can consume less transportation margin services. The benchmark year is 1999. The model was constructed for six Brazilian regions, North, Northeast, Center-West, São Paulo, Rest of Southeast, and South and has details for twenty nine industries. The simulations are conducted to access the impacts on the national and regional economies due to the duplication of the federal highways BR-116 and BR-153. In both simulations, the results were as expected; the decrease in the demand for transportation margin due to the improvement of the accessibility among regions causes a reduction in the level of activity in the transportation road sector. With this, at first, there is a decrease in the price level and, consequently an increase in the level of production. The results for the BR-116, one of the most important transportation networks between the regions Northeast, Southeastern and South of the country, point to the difficult situation of the Northeast region in relation to the rest of the Brazilian regions. The results in the long run show a relative loss of the Northeast region in relation to the most dynamic regions of the country, considering the changes in the regional GDP. Otherwise, the improvement of the infrastructure in an interregional context implies that more dynamic regions attract for themselves the benefits of a better trade flow. In this sense, the Northeast dependence to the intraregional trade is exacerbated with the improvement of the accessibility among the regions. The results for the BR-153 strengthen in some way, the results found for the BR-116. Despite that the BR-153 also links a poor region (North) to the most dynamic regions, in regional terms, the results of the partial duplication of this highway are more favorable than for the BR-116. This can be explained by the fact that most of the duplicated stretches in the simulation with the BR-153 are located in the most developed regions of the country. The results indicate that the decision about to the investments must take into account not only the effect on the national economy but mainly on the regional impacts, because decisions taken only at the national level may contribute to an increase to the regional disparities.
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Guyton, Lynne E. "The organisation of Japanese FDI in Southeast Asia : implications for regional economic development." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361605.
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Mudyazvivi, Elton. "An analysis of push and pull factors of capital flows in a regional trading bloc." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28075.
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Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) into Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) between 2000 and 2014 remained a minute fraction (at only 2% and 1% respectively) of global inflows. This study seeks to explain this phenomenon by examining the push (global) and pull (domestic) factors that may help to explain inflows of FDI and FPI in SSA and the mechanisms through which these factors affect inflows (the how). As ongoing regional integration efforts in Africa through trading blocs, the study also discusses the role of regional trading blocs in explaining capital flows into SSA. In the process, the research challenges some of the established theories and contributes to policy for managing international capital inflows. The study identifies possible explanatory variables from existing theory and empirical studies. Data on possible determinants of FDI and FPI is largely extracted from the World Bank and IMF databases. The determinants considered are macro-economic, infrastructural, institutional, resource endowment and geographical related. These are modeled into econometric model of FDI and FPI. Several hypotheses on the possible determinants are then tested using panel regressions with random effects. The results indicate that SSA's FDI during the period reviewed is mainly pulled by macroeconomic dynamics, infrastructure and human resources factors and pushed by global macroeconomic performance. Likewise, FPI is largely pulled by GDP and infrastructure factors. The results further show that FDI and FPI inflows in regional trading blocs of SADC, COMESA and ECOWAS are affected by different risk, return, macroeconomic, trade and distance factors. The effects of factors such as distance and macroeconomic factors also vary across the regional trading blocs, suggesting their importance of these blocs in capital flows.
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Fernandes, Jorge Manuel Bernardino. "O investimento autárquico como factor de promoção do desenvolvimento regional dos municípios portugueses." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17916.
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A existência de assimetrias regionais é um tema abordado por diversas áreas do pensamento científico a saber, sociologia, geografia entre outras, neste trabalho estudaremos o investimento efectuado pelas autarquias entre 2003 e 2006. A metodologia utilizada baseia-se no cálculo da densidade média das seguintes variáveis: densidade populacional (Hab/Km2), de investimento por área (€/Km2) e de investimento versus população (€/Hab). Formularam-se, então, como questões centrais do nosso trabalho as seguintes: 1. Será equitativa a distribuição do investimento nas diversas regiões de Portugal? 2. Poderá o investimento autárquico funcionar como um factor decisivo na captação de população? 3. Constituirá um maior investimento autárquico um factor de desenvolvimento regional sustentável, autonomizado face à política regional de redistribuição? Conclui-se que não é linear a distribuição do investimento, não sendo directa a relação entre investimento e afluxo de população, não se demonstrando ser o investimento um factor de desenvolvimento regional; ABSTRACT: The occurrence of regional disparities is an issue that has been approached by several areas of scientific thought namely, sociology, geography, among others. In this work we have aimed at analyzing the investment that local authorities undertook from 2003 to 2006. The methodology is based on the calculation of the average density of the following variables: population density (inhabitants/ km 2), investment by area (€ / km2) and investment versus inhabitants (€ / inhabitants). The leading questions will be the following: 1. Is the distribution of investment throughout the different regions of Portugal equitable? 2. Can the municipal investment act as a decisive factor in attracting people? 3. Can a greater municipal investment be a relevant factor in the sustainable regional development, with a gained autonomy as regards the regional policy of redistribution? We reached the conclusion that the distribution of investment is not linear, as there is no direct interrelation between investment and influx of population, thus investment hasn’t been proved to be a factor as far as regional development is concerned.
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Martin, Norline A. "Attracting private investment to the Caribbean water and sanitation sector." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18412.
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The investment needs of the water and sanitation sector and the financing constraints facing many developing countries were important catalysts for the promotion of private investment during the 1990s. Towards the end of the decade however, the flow of private capital began to decline primarily due to the poor performance of some investments and difficulties encountered during these transactions. Regardless, private investment is still considered an important financial resource for the sector which has resulted in considerable attention in addressing governance, economic and socio-political factors which can discourage investment. The aim of the research is to develop a strategic framework for attracting private investment to the Caribbean water and sanitation sector. Using a multiple-case study approach, the research examines the phenomenon of private investment in the water and sanitation sectors in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago by assessing the environment for private investment and determining the specific drivers and deterrents to this type of investment. The implications of small size in the Caribbean context for institutional requirements to support private investment in the sector are also examined. Primary data for the research are obtained from public officials involved in the management, operation and regulation of the sector, local and international private service providers and local financial institutions through interviews and survey questionnaires. Documents are used to contextualise, corroborate and augment the research. The research found that in addition to traditional strategic and financial criteria in terms of provisions of the operating environment and investment performance, behaviour-related factors such as interest in job security, recognition and comfort were also important to the investment decision in the sector. Investors' perceptions of the utility were also found to be a statistically significant determinant of investment. Besides emphasising the importance of creating a conducive environment for investment, the research highlighted a need to simultaneously focus on generating specific investment opportunities to build investor confidence. The most important consequence of small size to negatively impact on creating conducive conditions for investment was the effect of limited professional capacity on institutional arrangements in the sector. Accordingly, sharing professional expertise to address capacity constraints emerged as the most feasible opportunity for regional cooperation to improve the environment for private investment in the sector.
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Васильєва, Тетяна Анатоліївна, Татьяна Анатольевна Васильева, Tetiana Anatoliivna Vasylieva, Наталія Володимирівна Винниченко, Наталья Владимировна Винниченко, Nataliia Volodymyrivna Vynnychenko, and О. С. Грищенко. "Проблеми формування регіональних інвестиційних програм." Thesis, Дніпропетровськ, 2005. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60699.
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Brown, Ross C. "Foreign direct investment and regional economic development : backward electronics linkages in Scotland and Singapore." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21237.
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This thesis examines the material linkages generated by electronics foreign direct investment (FDI) in Scotland and Singapore. The reason for undertaking the research owes to the general perception that FDI has not developed strong local supply linkages in Scotland. Given that linkages between multinationals and local suppliers constitute the most important long-term benefit from FDI -in terms of additional employment, technology and skills- this seems worrying for Scotland's long-term economic development. Although FDI has become the standard vehicle ameliorating the industrial restructuring process in less favoured regions, our understanding of linkages remains poor. Recent theoretical discourses within the spatial literature claim organisational change within multinationals is improving the prospects for localised linkages. Critics of this scenario point out that linkage formation in less favoured regions remains weak. In order to assess these diverging claims, empirical informa tion collected using intensive research techniques examines the extent, nature, and quality of linkages generated by a small sample of electronics multinationals in Scotland and Singapore. Findings from empirical material point towards quite low linkage formation in both regions. Although higher linkage levels were found in Singapore, this mainly owed to FDI in Singapore's higher value supply sectors. On the whole linkages tend to be concentrated in low value supply areas such as fabricated metal and plastic parts, particularly in Scotland. These rather limited linkages effects go against the claims made by the localisation school mentioned above. The key causal factors inhibiting local linkage development were examined by scrutinising various plant-level characteristics such as procurement autonomy and design. Inter-plant sourcing differentials reveal that truncated plant autonomy in key areas of decision making responsibility, particularly design, play a significant part in preventing linkage development. In this respect, Singapore's policies towards developing more autonomous design-intensive FDI seems to facilitate local linkage development. In order to to maximise its regional economic potential, the thesis concludes with the need for greater policy intervention towards FDI and ends with specific policy recommendations aimed at increasing linkages in Scotland.
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Ren, Jia. "Determinants and impact of foreign direct investment in China : a national and regional analysis." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12675.
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Since the late 1970s, the Chinese economic system has experienced a series of economic reforms, which include attracting foreign direct investment and the liberalisation of Chinese international trade. Due to the successful reform, China has experienced a 30 year economic growth. Previous empirical studies found the positive effect of FDI in the Chinese economic development. This study plans to investigate the factors which attract the investment to China and the impact of the inward FDI on international trade and Chinese economic development under the geographic location condition. OLI model has emphasis the location effect in motivated FDI flows. The first research question is the determinant of FDI in China with concerning the geographic effect. Different with the previous empirical paper on the FDI determinants in China, the using the geographic effect as an dummy variable in the specification, this study investigate the effect of the other determinant under different geographic background. The geographic effect has been explore in two levels: national level and regional level. On national level, there are two countries have been selected as research samples: the investment from the U.S. and the investment from Japan. These two countries have similar economic size and FDI stock in China but have different geographic relationship with China. Through the ARDL research approach, this study finds that the key drivers of inward investment are relative wages, relative capital cost, market size and net exports, although the source of these FDI flows is also found to be important especially those from the USA and Japan. The determinants of FDI from the US and Japan have different effect. International trade has negative effect of export from US to China on the US FDI stock in China, while it has positive coefficient of the exports from Japan to China on the Japanese FDI. The large market size would drive the FDI from US but reduce the FDI from Japan. The geographic effect influences the motivation of FDI (Helpman 1984, Cushman 1988). This further lead the determinants has different effect. The study on regional FDI divided the Chinese provinces in two subgroups: the eastern coastal area and the western hinterland. The eastern area has more than 80% of FDI in China. The eastern coastal has rich resource in the transportation, openness, physical and human capital. The west hinterland area has cheaper labours. However, the result shows that the competition in the sub-regions are determined by it scare resources. Cheaper wage is the key factor to attractive the investment to the east regions. While the technology, human capital and economy openness is the key factors to determine the FDI stock in the west hinterland. The second research question is the impact of FDI on international trade. Chapter 6 investigates the plausibility of FDI driving trade. The granger causality test has been applied to test the endogenity between international trade and FDI stock in China, the results does not support the causality. The further regression results show that this model is not substantiated by the data, so the maintained hypothesis that FDI is the dependent variables seems to be appropriate for China. The third contribution is to examine the effects of FDI on economic growth. In this panel data analysis the impact of FDI on the regions of the country is examined. Furthermore, the impact on the sub-regions groups has also been explored. The results show that economy of the east coastal area in China is motivated by the inward FDI stock. However, due to the limitation of the catch-up capability, FDI has negative effect on the development of the hinterland in China. The hinterland economy is driven by the international trade, although the transportation resource in the hinterland is not as rich as ones in the eastern coast.
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Мареха, Ірина Сергіївна, Ирина Сергеевна Мареха, and Iryna Serhiivna Marekha. "Ecological and economic optimization of investment attractiveness in regional agriculture within sustainable development framework." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2012. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/26649.
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Booppanon, Sarasin. "The effects of bilateral and regional investment agreements on the FDI inflows into ASEAN countries." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/2961.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Mason University, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 17, 2008). Thesis director: Kenneth A. Reinert. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy. Vita: 175 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174). Also available in print.
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Musonda, Chipampata. "Spatial implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) on infrastructure delivery: A case of the City of Lusaka, Zambia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28080.
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The is a strong belief that FDI offers possibilities towards a development that has eluded developing countries for decades. It has become a predominant feature in development policy. The influence towards this orientation to development emanates from geopolitical dynamisms that have revolutionized global production systems at the hands of globalization. Innovations in urban economic development strategies concentrate on integrating local economies into the global market through the provision of infrastructure as the operative of global capital inflows. It is argued, however, that to exploit the full benefits of FDI, not only should the country attract the appropriate kind of investment, but its investment policy should be consistent in its interaction and engagements with the overall country's development policy regimes. Appropriateness in this argument entails that, with infrastructure identified as the primary requirement for attracting FDI, it is not only a question of being able to link the provision of infrastructure to attract investment but understanding the social-technical nature of infrastructure and its overall spatial manifestation as a function of urban form and structure. It is the spatial character underlying urban production systems, which development strategies such as FDI need to appropriately understand because it is at that interface were FDI-economic growth argument translate into economic development. Using a formulated conceptual framework based on Socio-Technical Systems (STS) theorization, the study assessed the spatial impacts of the FDI on infrastructure in the City of Lusaka in Zambia. It identified key institutions at the fulcrum of investment promotion and spatial development planning with a focus on planning and provision of network infrastructure. It also reviewed the main policies and legislation driving the FDI-led development agenda. The findings point out that national government priorities at significantly focused on the provision of infrastructure, however, on a very selective and narrow perspective. Infrastructure provision priority is in what is termed as 'economic infrastructure' argued to be the missing element in attracting FDI. What was also discovered, which in a way explains how infrastructure provision is narrowly considered, is a fragmented institutional framework resulting from inadequate legislation. The inadequacies lack of recognition of the spatial embeddedness of investment in the legislation resulting in disconnection between investment strategies formulation and spatial development planning. The overarching conclusion from the study is that to actualize the benefits of FDI substantially, the framework of regimes at the core of advancing the development goal driven by infrastructure, needs to understand the socio-technical nature of network infrastructure. A purely economic consideration of infrastructure as was discovered in the study, significantly limits FDI's contributive value to development.
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Ho, Owen Chih-Hung. "Foreign direct investment in China : determinants, effects and efficiency." University of Western Australia. School of Economics and Commerce, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0013.
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China's phenomenal economic growth has coincided with a substantial increase in FDI inflows and hence led researchers, including the author, to believe that increased inflows of FDI into China has had important implications for the country's trade and economic development over the past decades. The objective of this thesis is to identify and investigate several key issues associated with inward FDI in the Chinese economy. These include the determinants of FDI inflows at the sectoral level, spillover effects of FDI on labour productivity and innovation, the causal linkage between FDI and China's bilateral trade with selected OECD countries, and the performance of foreign funded enterprises (FFEs) compared to the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. This thesis adds to the existing research on the role that FDI has played in recent growth of the Chinese economy by applying new as well as established techniques to China's regional and sectoral data. In particular, it integrates descriptive and empirical analysis to extend existing studies in several ways. First, analyses in the empirical chapters of this thesis are undertaken using data at the regional and sectoral level. Second, this thesis uses panel data from official sources for all empirical examinations. Last, whereas most existing studies have ignored the importance of unit-root issues when using panel data, and therefore possibly producing unreliable results, this thesis employs unit-root tests for all panel data analyses. The key findings in this thesis can be summarized in four points. First, at the sectoral level, for China as a whole, foreign investors are influenced by labour productivity, wage costs and innovation activities but not by the level of state ownership. For Guangdong province, foreign investors are concerned with labour productivity and wages as well as state ownership at sectoral level. However, the level of innovation does not play an important role in influencing inflows of FDI into Guangdong province at sectoral level. Second, the thesis found that FDI generates spillover effects on labour productivity in China although no spillover effects on the level of innovation were detected. At the regional level, it was concluded that the coastal and western regions experience a greater amount of spillover effects from FDI than do the municipal cities. Furthermore, the western region is the only region that experiences greater spillover effects from FDI on innovation than the municipal cities. Also, the spillover effects of FDI appear to be no different prior to or post-1997 when the Asian financial crises occurred. Third, a co-integrating relationship exists between FDI and total trade, FDI and exports, and FDI and imports in China. The thesis further concluded that bidirectional causality between FDI and trade variables exists in China in the long-run. However, short-run causality runs only from FDI to trade. Fourth, the thesis further shows that FFEs in China are more efficient than SOEs. Over time it is observed that SOEs and FFEs in the municipal cities and the coastal regions experienced greater productivity gains than those in the central and western regions during the sample period. It is also concluded that both SOEs and FFEs in the municipal cities have experienced more productivity growth than those in other regions with SOEs in the central region and FFEs in the western region experiencing the least productivity growth.
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Gupta, Ritija. "Inequality among neighbors understanding foreign direct investment as a function of regional determinism within India /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/3703.
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Hester, Annette. "Regional trade agreements in the Americas and country risk, solving the foreign direct investment puzzle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0015/MQ55274.pdf.
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Baier, Fabian [Verfasser]. "A Gravity Approach to Regional and Global Investment Dynamics: Theory and Empirical Findings / Fabian Baier." Wuppertal : Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1206120916/34.
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Padilla, Perez Ramon. "Foreign direct investment and regional technological capabilities : the case of the electronics industry in Mexico." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431441.
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McDonough, Gail. "Comparison of pricing differences between the private and public regional mall : real estate investment trusts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68773.
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Zhang, Fan. "Regional disparity in homeownership, investment choice, and intra-household bargaining : evidence from Chinese household surveys." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52103/.
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This thesis contains three studies that provide theoretical and empirical evidence on household decisions in housing and investment portfolios in China, using 2010-2014 data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The first study investigates regional disparities in homeownership and value of owner-occupied housing in Chinese cities by using panel data from 2010-2014 CFPS. The results show that demographic characteristics actively shape the housing outcomes of urban households in different regions. The results also reveal development trajectories of regional economies. The findings indicate that while urban households benefit from an emerging population and an enormous growth in the private sector in the Eastern and Central regions, in the Northeastern region households are hindered in homeownership by an ageing population and an economy dominated by oversized but inefficient state-owned enterprises (SoEs). The second study adopts a nested logit approach, applying three data sets from the 2010-2014 CFPS. This approach explores how household investment choice differs with personal and household characteristics (e.g., such as health, demographic features, and institutional factors) across the broad investment categories of financial assets, private businesses, and real estate. I also employ a sub-sample from the 2012 CFPS that is restricted to parental households to examine how parenthood alters household investment decisions by building a binomial logistic model. The empirical results show that migration and income have a positive effect on investment decisions in the nested logit models. The evidence from the subsample finds that there are significant differences in the impact of demographic composition between investment categories. Using the 2010-2014 CFPS panel data, the third study investigates how household investment holdings vary according to demographic composition and intra-household bargaining strength in urban China. In addition, to explore the allocation of household investment, a further examination is carried out in the fixed-effect model with the specification of the Working-Leser function and in a Tobit model with two limits. Empirical evidence supports the following hypotheses: (a) changes in demographic composition considerably alter household investment holdings; and (b) the existence of a higher proportion of female children is strongly associated with an increase in household investments in financial assets.
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Kostansek, Joy. "A Full Plate: A Case Study Analysis of Anchor Institution Investment in a Regional FoodSystem." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou158679495806688.
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Ibarra, Armenta Cristina Isabel. "The role of local and regional governments in investment growth and productivity enhancement in Mexico." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6972/.
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This thesis examines the influence of local and regional governments in investment growth and productivity in Mexico. A combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis is used with the aim of assessing their influence and tools. Mexican municipalities and states have gained major participation in policy making, investment fostering and infrastructure building. The decentralised resources to meet these goals have increased considerably; as a consequence, it becomes imperative to measure the actual effects of such resources as well as to identify the opportunity areas to develop. The first part of the empirical analysis, attempts to measure the influence of local governments’ expenditures on private investment growth, as well as to identify the most important investment drivers. Likewise, given the increasing foreign investments landing in Mexico, there is a potential regional competition between cities, this is also evaluated. A panel data analysis consistent with cross section dependence is carried out for 63 Metropolitan Areas (MA)/cities for the period 1993-2008. The econometric analysis shows that, municipal governments’ expenditures have had a substantial effect on private capital. In addition, competition strategies matters. More importantly, public infrastructure stock is revealed as a central determinant for investment, especially for manufacturing firms. The second empirical chapter evaluates whether municipal and state expenditures in economic policies have boosted productivity of firms. Firms and regional features are also included in the estimation models. Panel data analysis consistent to cross section dependence is used, for 63 MA/cities and 29 states. The results showed that the policies implemented in municipalities have had little or even negative effects over firms’ productivity. Meanwhile, the policies implemented by states have had larger influence on productivity increases. In order to dig deeper into the role of local and regional governments in economic policies, two case studies –Hermosillo and Mexicali- are presented in the last part. Empirical models cannot tell about the local processes, as the data used is only expenditures. The fieldwork undertaken helped to identify the most significant policies followed in each city, as well as the leadership and organisation of stakeholders. The main finding suggests that local participation and overcoming political cycle is essential for the long-term success; and easing doing business for firms, rather than incentives, is more effective to spur private investment.
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Indopu, Kufamuyeke, and Talla Joseph Tagne. "Foreign Direct Investment In Africa : A Look Into FDI Determinants." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-14764.
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Foreign Direct Investment is seen as a critical source of capital inflow and a stimulant of economic growth in many developing nations. It brings with it benefits such as job creation, technology and knowledge transfers just to mention a few. Thus many African countries are keen in finding ways of attracting FDI. The main objective of this paper is to empirically examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by incorporating an econometric method based on cross-sectional data from 41 African countries over the period 2002-2007. More precisely, this research intends to answer the following question: what are the relevant determinants that promote FDI inflows in Africa? Among the several determinants of FDI, the finding suggests that market size and natural resource predominance are the main determinants of FDI into Africa.
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Li, Jian. "Regional innovation, inward FDI and industrial structure : a provincial and firm level study of China." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8548.
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is believed to be a carrier of advanced knowledge to host countries, but how regional factors might impact FDI spillover effects is still uncertain. Meanwhile, regional industrial structure, i.e. specialization and diversity, has been frequently discussed in the literature, but there is no consensus about which type of industrial structure can promote regional innovation. In this thesis, the above two streams of literature are integrated and a theoretical model is proposed in which regional FDI and industrial structure are hypothesized to have direct and interactive effects on regional innovativeness. Provincial- and firm-level panel datasets (2000-2010) were compiled for empirical analyses. The results indicate that a foreign presence is beneficial for both regional and firm innovation capability while these associations are contingent on the level of industrial structure, namely the degree of specialization and diversity. A greater level of regional specialization is less likely to facilitate regional innovators to gain positive spillovers from FDI while an increase in diversity is more likely to reinforce the positive effects of foreign presence on regional innovativeness. As China has become the biggest FDI recipient country in the world in recent years and the Chinese industrial structure has been changing rapidly during the last few decades, an empirical study in the Chinese context would be ideal to examine the debate on the roles of industrial structure and FDI in promoting regional innovativeness. Overall, this research aims to advance the understanding about the moderating role of regional industrial structure in affecting the spillover effect of FDI on regional and firm innovation. The findings not only provide empirical evidence for the specialization versus diversity debate, but also highlight the essential role of contextual factors in facilitating regional innovativeness.
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Thulin, Per. "Essays on Regional Growth, Comparative Advantages and Foreign Direct Investments." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Transporter och samhällsekonomi (stängd 20110301), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11846.
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This thesis consists of four essays, covering four different topics. The first essay investigates the relationship between inter-firm labor mobility and regional productivity growth. Previous studies have shown that density is positively correlated with growth. I claim that it is not density in itself, but rather the attributes associated with it that drives economic growth. One such attribute is the increased possibility for labor mobility and knowledge diffusion that follows when firms and individuals locate in close proximity to each other. This hypothesis is tested using density as an instrument for labor mobility. The result shows that labor mobility increases regional growth rates. The second essay examines the relationship between agglomeration economies and relative wage costs in influencing location of multinational corporations. An inflow of firms to certain regions and industries is likely to increase demand for labor. If mobility of labor is low increased costs can be expected to deter additional inflows of firms, albeit agglomeration economies may compensate for higher wages. The empirical analysis finds that FDI has become increasingly sensitive to differences in wage costs across industrialized countries, but also that agglomeration economies related to knowledge externalities positively influences higher costs. The third essay looks at the impact of FDI on home country investments. Previous research has been inconclusive as regards the effects on domestic investments. In this article, we show that this inconclusiveness can be explained at a disaggregated level as a function of the way industries are organized. We argue that a complementary relationship can be expected to prevail in vertically integrated industries, whereas a substitutionary relationship can be expected in horizontally organized production. The empirical analysis confirms a significant difference between the two categories of industry as regards the impact of outward FDI on domestic investment. The fourth, and final, essay of this thesis analyses how increased R&D expenditures and market size influence the distribution of comparative advantage. Previous studies report ambiguous results and also refer to periods when markets were much more segmented and production factors less mobile. The empirical analysis comprises 19 OECD-countries and spans the period 1981 to 1999. It is shown how an increase in R&D-expenditures by one percentage point implies a three-percentage point increase in high-technology exports, whereas market size fails to attain significance. In addition, institutional factors influence the dynamics of comparative advantage.
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Gillespie, Gary. "Modelling the system-wide impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Scotland : an ownership-disaggregated regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21179.
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The central aim of this thesis is to develop a modelling framework that is capable of analysing the system-wide impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Scotland. In 1996, foreign-owned plants accounted for around 40,35 and 23 per cent of Scottish manufacturing output, gross value added and employment. Moreover, the attraction of FDI remains an important part of UK regional policy in Scotland with just under half of all Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) awarded to foreign-owned firms. A key concern of this type of discretionary regional policy is whether such assistance is warranted. FDI is thought to have a range of potential demand and supply-side effects and foreign-owned manufacturing plants, in general, have quite distinct structural and behavioural characteristics, as compared with indigenous plants. Yet conventional regional system-wide evaluations of FDI typically focus on demand-side issues, using regional models that assume a passive supply-side and do not disaggregate by ownership. In this thesis I construct ownership-disaggregated Scottish Input-Output and Computable General Equilibrium Models in order to illustrate both the potential demand and supply-side impacts of FDI. The construction of the ownership disaggregated I-0 database provides a unique snapshot of the structure and interaction of foreign and UK-owned plants in Scotland. This provides detailed information as well as providing the basis for calibrating the ownership-disaggregated I-0 and CGE models. The analysis of the potential supply-side impacts of FDI, particularly labour market and 'efficiency spillover' effects, indicates that both can have a significant effect on the estimate of total FDI supported employment. Finally, I develop a simulation framework that is capable of separately identifying the importance of incorporating both 'structure' and 'behaviour' in regional models of FDI. The results indicate that incorporating the 'true' structure of foreign-owned plants is essential if one is to correctly estimate the system-wide impact of FDI.