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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries? institutional environment, we find that, evaluated at the mean, the marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive for countries in which private agents face a substantial regulatory burden. After testing the robustness of this result, we offer a theoretical model that is able to rationalize our puzzling observation.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 246
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Foreign Aid
International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- Thema
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Aid
Foreign Direct Investment
Institutions
Direktinvestition
Entwicklungshilfe
Investitionspolitik
Subvention
Politische Stabilität
Schätzung
Aufstrebende Märkte
Entwicklungsländer
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Harms, Philipp
Lutz, Matthias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
- (wo)
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Hamburg
- (wann)
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2003
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Harms, Philipp
- Lutz, Matthias
- Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
Entstanden
- 2003
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