This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...

Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we e...

1831 As a factor influencing productivity, a country's own research and development to generate new technology is more important than that of the average foreign country. It is generally difficult to separate the effect of importing intermediate goods with embodied technology from the effect of other channels of international technology transmission. According to this study, international trade...

This study investigates the effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) on export and gross domestic product (GDP) in original fragile five countries for period 1990-2017. For sake analysis, annual data is used two econometric models are utilized to determine stationary variables, their long-term relationship, regression coefficients, causality relationship between variables. The results indica...

Many developing countries have embraced policies to attract foreign direct investment into their respective economies including the agricultural sector enhance technology transfer, employment, and trade among other benefits. On hand, has been associated with competition local produce from imported raw processed products land grabbing that deprived farmers of for cultivation. These could implica...

in recent decades, foreign policy of middle east countries has been deeply affected by increasing ethnic and religious identities. on the other hand, realist approach has still remained as dominant logic for analyzing of politics in this region. this article based on constructivist approach, analyses the impact of ethnic identity factor on foreign policy of middle east states and emphasizes on ...

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relationship between bank ownership and bank profi tability in six South-Eastern European countries (SEE-6): Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, FYR Macedonia and Albania. Like in most other Eastern European countries the transition period in the selected set of six Balkan countries was characterised by a large infl ux of foreign investors, mostly ...

globalization and increasing political, economic and cultural relations among different countries’ people have resulted in many legal effects. one of the important results of these relations is the increase of disputes among people in the world that forums must apply a foreign law to settle them. certainly, iranian forums have dealt with such cases. although the proof of foreign law as a questi...