A model of inward foreign direct investment for Australia is estimated. Foreign direct investment is found to be positively related to economic and productivity growth and negatively related to foreign portfolio investment, trade openness, the exchange rate and the foreign real interest rate. Foreign direct investment is found to be a substitute for both portfolio investment and trade in goods ...

PURPOSE This white paper addresses a burning question related to investment promotion and trade promotion synergies: Are Trade Promotion Organizations and Investment Promotion Agencies merging? In order to better understand Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) and if their services and goals present similarities with Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs), this whitepaper identifies the four majo...

This paper studies the growth and performance of foreign investment enterprises in developing countries in the context of global economic integration and domestic reform with a focus on Vietnam as a case study. A model of enterprise performance is constructed to provide empirical findings and evidence-based policy implications on the role of capital, investment, monetary and development pol...

The environmental impact of a regional trade agreement towards liberalization is an empirical question. The paper estimates the economic and environmental impacts of alternative trade policies of liberalization between six East Asian countries using Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) framework. The finding reveals that Japan will be in a winwin situation followed by Republic of Korea after ta...

This paper addresses the question of determining the optimal timing of interventions in information security management. Using utility theory, we derive the limiting condition under which, given a potential or realized risk, a decision to invest, delay, or abandon can be justified. Our primary focus is on the decision to defer costly deterministic investments, such as the removal of a service o...

The dissertation focuses on the study of environmental policies and their impacts on the power systems’ planning. It consists of three parts, each of which addresses a single problem on environmental policies and generation expansion planning. In the first part of the dissertation, I compared the capand-trade policy and various carbon tax policies in a single period under the generation expansi...

T he main objective of this paper was the investigation of the impact of the trade openness on economic growth in Pakistan. We have been employed both the Johensen and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Co-integration together with ECM Techniques for the period 1975-2016. The empirical estimated results are the sound evidence that there exists a short...