... the effect oftreatiesonforeigndirect investment: bilateral investment treaties, doubletaxation treaties, and investmentflows This page intentionally left blank the effect oftreatieson ... swenson part iii: exploring theimpactofdoubletaxationtreatiesonforeigndirectinvestmentflows 17 Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote ForeignDirect Investment? 461 bruce a blonigen and ronald ... of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impactoftaxationon international production and location decisions of multinational firms jason yackee Jason Yackee is an assistant professor...
... variables appear to be the quality oftheinvestment climate and market size ofthe host economy The importance of these two factors is linked with the two main motivations for FDI: investments are ... extent does the business environment or the country’s characteristics affect the effectiveness ofinvestment promotion? Does the quality ofthe general business environment matter? Does the effectiveness ... study ofinvestment promotion agencies and their effectiveness in attracting foreigndirectinvestment (FDI) has been done to date.4 This empirical gap means that the debate onthe effectiveness of...
... investment climate An extension ofthe methodology consists of testing the existence of a linear relationship between the quality oftheinvestment climate and the IPA effectiveness.24 30 / The ... with the best investment climate (an elasticity coefficient of 0.l6 versus 0.35) Similar large differences in theimpactofthe promotion effort are also depicted on a function ofthe level ofthe ... ofthe promotion agency differ It assumes a nonlinear relationship between the environment and IPA effectiveness The second channel explores the possibility of a linear relationship between the...
... Services The core of many investment promotion efforts is the provision of services to investors This function appears quite high onthe IPA’s agenda, at least in terms of budget allocation It seems ... minister or a board of directors or sometimes to both Most often, its mandate goes beyond the promotion offoreigninvestment and includes domestic investment and export promotion Still, the IPA tends ... is the number of mandates assigned to the IPAs Agencies generally have a mandate that goes beyond foreigninvestment promotion Often, they combine domestic investment promotion (54 percent of...
... Characteristics ofInvestment Promotion Agencies and Their Roles / 51 rather than one large-scale transaction, as in the case of a directinvestment Because the commitment is less and the decision is reversible, ... with the support ofthe Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the World Association ofInvestment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), conducted a survey of more than 100 investment promotion ... from the government, which remains the main source of financing The effectiveness of IPAs needs to be qualified: it is highly dependent onthe quality oftheinvestment climate and the level of...
... Questionnaire / 73 AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY 11 - Promotion of FDI 12 - Promotion of domestic investment 13 - Export promotion 14 - Promotion of privatization 15 - Foreign investor registration/licensing ... FIAS-MIGA Questionnaire / 69 advocacy) Please specify in the comments section at the end ofthe questionnaire if you use a different approach In some parts ofthe questionnaire, estimates of staff, ... regional offices in the country, if any 10 - Agency’s overseas representation, if any Names of departments/divisions (For this information, you may provide a diagram ofthe current structure of the...
... Investment generation Unless otherwise specified, the information should refer to the average for the last three years (1999–2001), if possible (See note at the top of section E.) Table 12: Investment ... / The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies 64 - Please provide an estimate of your agency’s FDI promotion staff, time, and/or budget spent onthe development and maintenance ofthe above-mentioned ... Turnover of professional permanent staff per year (%) 47 - Status of staff (please check box) - Civil servants - Private sector - Other (please specify) For FDI promotion functions only If the information...
... conditions, economic openness, and political and institutional conditions The higher the score on a given factor, the worse the quality oftheinvestment climate 13 Our simulation assumes that one ... institutional health The higher the score on a given factor, the greater the 102 / The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies level of government interference in the economy and the less economic ... dynamic in the sense that the slope parameter changes along the regression curve depending onthe location ofthe variables in the sample More specifically, we minimize the weighted sum -of- squared...
... revolutions because ofthe important economic and social effects derived from it This revolution involves the reformulation ofthe key resources for the companies If in the Industrial Revolution the ... measurement which involves the assessment ofthe results derived from the implementation of different marketing strategies One of these barriers is the complexity to isolate the effects of a particular ... are onthe verge ofthe most significant transformation in business Although CRM concept has been the central core of many articles, conferences and seminars, so far most of them corresponds...
... assess theimpactof public/private partnerships onthe practice of budgeting To examine theimpactof cross-service programmes on budgeting practice To compare the two authorities and examine the ... Indian sub-continent The other authority was located in the south of England near to London and faced different challenges based around issues of congestion and labour shortages in the public ... experience of ‘Eastmet’ 3.4 The experience of Southshire Conclusions Authors contact details References Overview The focus of this project was on post-1997 policy innovations for the local government...
... bonds, Altman (1989) used a mortality rate concept to measure default rates conditional onthe age ofthe bond Altman found that the cumulative bond mortality increases with the age ofthe bond ... where χ2 is the value ofthe model chi-square, k is the number of regressors in the model, and Λ(0) is the value ofthe log likelihood with no variables The second term in the numerator ofthe R statistic ... determine the level of significance ofthe variable coefficients included in the model The ImpactOf Firm's Characteristics On Junk-Bond Default 51 TESTING THE MODEL GOODNESS OF FIT To test the model...
... generalization ofthe findings beyond the Vietnam construction sector and not only on share construction firms Thus, the scope ofthe further research may be extended to the working components and profitability ... recommendations for the target populations Finally, the researcher present the limitations ofthe study, future research directions 5.1 Conclusions The object of this study is to examine theimpactof ... the context of Vietnam along with the importance of working capital management calls for research on their impacton firms’ profitability In light ofthe above points, the general objective of...
... time of life, if they have continued access to the economic resources of a non-migrant father, or if they indirectly benefit from remittances received from the migrant mother or parents Onthe other ... Transition Review Theimpactof rural-urban migration on child survival 139 six months less than children of rural non-migrants, but only one month longer than urban non-migrant children Since all of ... breastfeeding are one aspect ofthe modernization of migrant behaviour in urban areas that confers a wide range of health benefits on children of migrants Onthe other hand, relatively low durations of breastfeeding...
... this section in consultation with the Director of 20 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the 21 advisory council for the Institute 22 ‘‘(b) RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND INFORMATION AND ... environmental factors ‘‘(d) COORDINATION OF CENTERS; REPORTS. The Director ofthe Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among centers under sub6 section (a) ... is conducting multidisci16 plinary research on environmental factors that may be re17 lated to the development of women’s health conditions (as 18 defined in section 486) The Director of the...
... risk onthe cost of bank funding The empirical literature does not provide indications onthe size oftheimpactof sovereign risk onthe cost of bank funding This box examines whether the characteristics ... characteristics ofthe sovereign play a role in addition to the traditional determinants ofthe cost of issuing bonds for banks (ie the characteristics ofthe bank and the bond, and market conditions; see ... funding and the flow -on effects onthe real economy This report outlines theimpactof sovereign risk concerns onthe cost and availability of bank funding over recent years It then describes the channels...
... significantly impacted by SLR (Figure 2d) This is partly explained by theimpactof SLR onthe A.R of Egypt’s agricultural extent Indeed, most oftheimpactof SLR onthe agricultural sector ofthe region ... of threat Under the provisions ofthe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), some work has begun on National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) These are intended ... Approximately half ofthe population of these countries would be impacted with a 5m SLR In terms of economic activity (Figure 1d), theimpactof a 1m SLR on Suriname, Guyana, and The Bahamas’ GDP...
... long-run, the presence of up-front investment costs in the short-run combined with their aforementioned lag in adjusting their valuation models to reflect theimpactof such strategies, will lead them ... particular, none of them has documented empirically and quantified theimpactof CSR behaviors on such channels Our paper is the first one to so by estimating theimpactof CSR strategies on sell-side ... expectations and perceptions ofthe long-run earnings potential of a firm (Fried and Givoly, 1982; O’Brien 1988) Therefore, by examining theimpactof CSR oninvestment recommendations and, by...
... security, the information quality of website, the company’s reputation strongly affects on Internet consumers’ trust Then, Internet consumers’ trust and perceived risk strongly impacton purchasing ... experience-based factors onthe purchase intention with the mediation of trust in the context of Vietnam B2C environment Little or no research is available in the area of trust, specifically in the e-commerce ... authorization I am concerned about the privacy of my personal information during a transaction This vendor will sell my personal information to others without my permission Perceived Security Protection...