We employ a structural gravity approach to analyse the impact of preferential trade
agreements (PTAs), bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and other policies on bilateral foreign …

The literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) determinants is remarkably diverse in terms
of competing theories and empirical results. We utilize Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to …

Summary The Aid for Trade (AfT) Initiative was launched in 2005 at the Hong Kong
Ministerial Conference where high-income countries pledged to increase their AfT …

Unlike the large literature on 'democracy and trade', there is a much smaller literature on the
effect of the level of democracy in a nation on the level of its foreign direct investment (FDI) …

We study the effects of “corruption distance,” defined as the difference in corruption levels
between country pairs on bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a “gravity” model …

It is well documented that foreign investment inflows are deterred by host taxes. What is less
clear, however, is the degree to which these aggregate changes are driven by firm choices …

This study used a gravity model to analyze the importance of China within the “Belt and
Road Initiative”(BRI) trade pattern based on different regression methods, including pooled …

Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed course
and joined Georgia and Moldova in signing Association Agreements in June 2014. This …

The paper develops a district-level gravity-type model of foreign direct investment (FDI) stock
in Slovakia using Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood estimation based on the most recent …

What makes countries competitive? What economic policies effectively influence country
competitiveness? The aim of this research paper is to analyse country competitiveness …